 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others...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,... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - 1992 - 296 páginas
...inaugural address, Lincoln reflected precisely on the sense of prudence that preserved these arrangements. 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,... | |
 | Peter Charles Hoffer - 1990 - 324 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1912 - 752 páginas
...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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first inaugural address (final text), March 4, 1861.— The Collected Works... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - 1973 - 1012 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 páginas
...the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others...fugitive-slave clause of the 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... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2001 - 392 páginas
...court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.354 This had been substantially the position Lincoln had taken repeatedly on Dred Scott during... | |
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Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. 
