 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...  Outlook and Independent - Página 2181916Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 páginas
...constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot object to its nationality, its universality; if 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... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 páginas
...return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our free-state Constitutions. ... If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot object to its nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 páginas
...blessing. Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any gronnd save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 460 páginas
...mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...they 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 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 naf tionality—its universality, if, it is wrong, they can not justly... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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...thought slavery right ; all we ask they could as readily i grant if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it V right and our thinking it wrong is the precise... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 páginas
...158 18 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1899 - 196 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...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension — itsenlargement. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right ; all we ask they... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 páginas
...treatment of all sides of the central controversy, it had such unity that one idea dominated the whole: " All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought...could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." To support duty was the straight road; " then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively."... | |
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