...to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved: that the maintenance incluíate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and contra! its own domestic institutions according to its own Judgment exclusively, is essential to that...

...emphatic resolution which l now read: Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the 25 States, and especially the right of each State to...the perfection and endurance of our political fabric 30 depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory,...

...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...exclusively, is essential to that balance of power of which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless...

...essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric 30 depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Tennitony, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. . . . I now reiterate these sentiments,...

...to abide by the legal and moral implications of a doctrine of inalienable rights. Lincoln recognized "the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively," but in the covenant view, that right must express the rights of the people,...

...Lincoln reminded the American people of the Republican platform under which he ran for office: "Resolved: That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." For a discussion of the operation of the Fugitive Slave Act, see Stanley W. Campbell, The Slave Catchers:...

...— in the words of the Republican platform, quoted by Lincoln in his first inaugural address — of "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively."23 Douglass biographer Benjamin Quarles, citing an 1859 letter to Garrison from Hinton...

...Chicago, Republicans passed a unanimous resolution endorsing "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of States, and especially the right of each State to...institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." In case the resolution's message was unclear, they passed another that condemned "the lawless invasion...

...treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant People sternly to rebuke and forever silence. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless...

...do so." Indeed, he reiterated his endorsement of the 1 860 Republican platform, which had spoken of "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively."37 No one, at least as of 1861, was so bold to suggest that slavery could be threatened...