 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 prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories,...  Old South Leaflets - Page 1591902 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states '{ If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by onr duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this,...us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States ? If our Bense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored—contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored,—contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain... | |
 | William Goodell Frost - 1891 - 50 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in the free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then...industriously plied and belabored, contrivances such asas groping for some middle ground oetween the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in the Free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and Co effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belaboured, — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belaboured, — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 182 pages
...to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." • COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS, 1860. " Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances...middle ground between the right and the wrong ; vain is the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man — such as a policy of '... | |
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