 | George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 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, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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...wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast oui votes with thek view, and against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities,... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 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, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 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...we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes 318 with their view, and against our own? In view of our moral, social and political responsibilties,... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 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...social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? Providing no answers because they are only too obvious, Lincoln moves on to merge self and party with... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 242 pages
...was that southerners thought slavery right and Republicans thought it wrong. "Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full...social, and political responsibilities, can we do this?" No, the Republicans' sense of duty would not let them yield to southern demands about slavery. Nor... | |
 | John Gerring - Philosophy - 2001 - 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...social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? . . . [C]an we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories,... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them?...social, and political responsibilities, can we do this?" The audience was with me now, clapping and cheering me on. "Let us not," I said, "be slandered from... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | Wilbert L. Jenkins - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...to reassure Southerners that he had no intentions of eradicating the institution, Lincoln asserted, "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."1 Despite the numerous assurances... | |
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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. 
