 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...and as a law to themselves, and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: "Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we... | |
 | Indiana - Session laws - 1861 - 642 pages
...interfere with any of the laws passed under and by authority of the same. Resolved, That the Hiaintainance of the rights of the States and especially the right...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... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1913 - 236 pages
...recanted them.'' He then read a resolution adopted by the Convention which nominated him, declaring, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...platform in the last contest was adopted at Chicago in 1860, and the fourth article was as follows : — ' The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 524 pages
...involved "an unqualified property in persons"?35 Would he stand by the part of the platform which pledged "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively"?36 Was the belief that he had so often uttered representative of the true Lincoln: "A... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 2012 - 372 pages
...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That... | |
 | Social Science - 184 pages
....as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: " 'Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we... | |
 | Charles W. Joyner - History - 1999 - 398 pages
...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...institutions. * id., p. 30. 4 The Fourth Resolution in the Republican Party platform of 1 860 declared That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...to order and control its own domestic institutions [especially slavery] according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power... | |
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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 perfection... 
