 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 298 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... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 290 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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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...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... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 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... | |
 | McLean County Historical Society (McLean County, Ill.) - Bloomington (Ill.) - 1900 - 194 pages
...right and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. * * * 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... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 638 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 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... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...scarcely be distinguished in principle." The speech reached its climax in its closing paragraph : " Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that so much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 354 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... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 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. 
