 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them ? (Jan we cast our votes with their view, and against our own ? In view of our moral, social, and political... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle. ***** Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can. Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle. * * * * * Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to tlame for desiring its full recognition, as being right;...our own? in view of our moral, social and political responsibility, •can we do this? Wrong as we may think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact ' upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1898 - 268 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? — Works, I, pp. 611-12. December 22, 1860, Lincoln wrote to AH Stephens in reply to a letter from... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do. they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 pages
...thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will... | |
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All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. 
