...Constitution), choice (C) religious (faithful, believing in a deity), or choice (D) "old." 16. (B) Lincoln said, "One section of our country believes slavery is right...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." Although some of his comments implied religious faith, he did not address this topic as relevant to...

...been elected to vindicate. There was, he said, a single "substantial dispute" in the sectional crisis: "[o]ne section of our country believes slavery is...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." There could be no doubt about where Lincoln stood, and where his administration would stand, on that...

...decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our...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 a community where the moral...

...decide cases properly brought before them ; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended ; and this is the only substantial dispute ; and the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and...

...appearing only in the passage where the new president repeated his formulation that "one section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be...the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended."48 Lincoln's first draft had been more explicit, quoting from the 1856 Republican platform's...

...appearing only in the passage where the new president repeated his formulation that "one section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wong and ought not to be extended."48 Lincoln's first draft had been more explicit, quoting from the...

...temper of doing this . . . Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchv . . . One section of our country believes slavery is right,...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute . . . Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other,...

...goad the secessionists still further, Lincoln reasserted the very thing he believed most rankled them. "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought to be restricted. That, "he said with a touch of irony, "is the only substantial dispute."7 Lincoln's...