...before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral...

...1955 by the Abraham Lincoln Association. Reprinted by petmission of the Rutgers University Press. 3 "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community 20 where the...

...demanded, and that the conflict was not serious. He brought this argument to a climax when he said: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." As a part of his strategy, Lincoln sought to establish common ground with southern countrymen through...

...Address, Lincoln asserted that slavery was the cause of the North-South conflict: "One section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."2 Four years of bloody warfare served to strengthen Lincoln's conviction that the resolution...

...inaugural address, Lincoln reflected precisely on the sense of prudence that preserved these arrangements. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral...

...before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral...

...the ghost of Banquo at Macbeth's coronation feast. President-elect Lincoln admitted "one section nf our country believes slavery is right and ought to...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."6 2 He foreswore abolition of slavery where positive law established it, but secessionists...

...sentences from Lincoln's inaugural address confirm this fact : "One section of our country believes that slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. That is the only substantial dispute." WHAT SETTLED THE SLAVERY QUESTION. The whole controversy was...

...Republican administration. He reduced the dispute between the north and south to its simplest expression: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." On the question of compromise, Lincoln recognized the authority of the people to amend the Constitution,...

...before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right...extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade...