 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1913 - 248 pages
...and control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." And added: ' ' I now reiterate these sentiments ; and, in doing so, I only press upon the public attention... | |
 | Indiana - Session laws - 1861 - 642 pages
...State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and that we as a portion of the people will abide by and maintain the same in theory and practice... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...State to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic institutions, of course, mean slavery. Further, an Act was passed by Congress, on... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the...of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the 381 lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 2012 - 372 pages
...the "revolutionary" and "subversive" doctrine of slavery expansion. The same section that denounced "the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of...under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes" also pledged fidelity to state rights.54 At the same time, Republicans held out the possibility of... | |
 | Social Science - 184 pages
...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political...no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest crimes.' " Nor was this declaration of the want of power or disposition to interfere with our social... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the...force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only... | |
 | Charles W. Joyner - History - 1999 - 398 pages
...Republicans went further. They made their repudiation of John Brown explicit in a resolution denouncing "the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of...under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes." The resolution passed unanimously.78 But slaveholders and their spokesmen persisted in listening only... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1999 - 408 pages
...State, to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." I have seen nothing in the administration of the Government, as yet, which would warrant... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...control its own domestic institutions [especially slavery] according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends. Lincoln incorporated this resolution into his inaugural address and, in addition, offered... | |
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Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the... 
