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
| 1902 - 510 páginas
...blessing. 158 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... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 476 páginas
...question how I ought to decide." In his Cooper Union speech may be found his strongest argument. " 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... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 458 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... | |
| 1902 - 354 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 - 1902 - 194 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...ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it 6? wrong. Theu' thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends... | |
| 1902 - 512 páginas
...158 19 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...insist upon its extension — its enlargement. All theyask_wecould readily granj^_if we thought slavery right f all /we"ask tHey"c6"ul3" as readily grant,... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 páginas
...question how I ought to decide." In his Cooper Union speech may be found his strongest argument. " 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... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 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 - 1903 - 460 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...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... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 452 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...upon its extension — its enlargement. All they ask \ve could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they... | |
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