 If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality ; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist...  New Outlook - Página 2181916Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 417 páginas
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could aa readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 45 páginas
...courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the na- f tion. STAND BY DUTY. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could readily grant, if we thought slavery right. * * If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. *... | |
 | Samuel R. Artman - 1908 - 295 páginas
...blessing. "Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we can not justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they can not justly insist... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 386 páginas
...style in which most of his later public documents were written. " If slavery is right," he said, " all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1909 - 292 páginas
...(37) Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension—its... | |
 | Percy MacKaye - 1909 - 210 páginas
...that which Lincoln made to the champions of serfdom in the republic, — • "All they ask we could as readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." The issue is clear : Is commercial bondage of a nation's art to be considered right or wrong ? Yes,... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Edward Bailey Eaton - 1910 - 162 páginas
...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery' is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole... | |
 | American Sociological Association - 1910
...blessing nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer, Everett Cherrington Hughes - 1910
...blessing nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1910 - 164 páginas
...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly ins1st upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery... | |
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