 | 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,...judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic institutions,... | |
 | 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...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That sounded like the kind of commitment Southern moderates had been looking for. But the Republicans... | |
 | 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...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of powers 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...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That sounded like the kind of commitment Southern moderates had been looking for. But the Republicans... | |
 | 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...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1999 - 408 pages
...on which Mr. Lincoln is elected, explicitly declares: "That the maintenance inviolate of the rights, and especially the right of each State, to order and...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Philip A. Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 446 pages
...1860 did not contradict Lincoln's views in regard to the territories, but it stressed its support for "the right of each state to order and control its...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively."6 Furthermore, in response to opponents' charges that they favored "African amalgamation... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...inclination to do so."49 This was the same course announced in the 1860 Republican platform, which read: That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter... | |
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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... 
