...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,...

...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...

...Paragraph 25) called "the only substantial dispute" dividing the North and the South: "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."317 And, as I have indicated, many on both sides also believed that if slavery could not...

...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...

...carried on if a constitutional majority could be denied the title deeds of office upon such a basis. [25] 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,...

...inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left One section of our country believes slavery is right...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. . . . Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each...

...Lincoln that so disturbed white Southerners, "One section of our country believes slavery is r1ght, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." Lincoln's other public declarations were not conciliatory. His theory of the Union did not allow secession...

...itself." There Lincoln cites opposing constitutional issues dealing with slavery — "the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade" — to make a connection between the moral sense of the community and the words of the...

...his "First Inaugural Address," the real issue dividing South and the North was: "One section of the country believes slavery is right, and ought to be...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 2:268-69. 84. Jaffa, How to Think About the American Revolution,...

...War was fundamentally about a single issue. As he said in his First Inaugural, "One section of the country believes slavery is right, and ought to be...while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not be extended." Lincoln wrote that if "slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when...