| New York State Bar Association - 1907 - 582 páginas
...revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." He had been elected on a platform that declared: and control its own domestic institutions according...perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend." If it be objected that the process for amendment is too slow for this lightning age, the answer is... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 páginas
...placed in the platform, for my acceptance, and as a lav to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatio resolution which I now read: " Resolved, That the...its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balanca of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 248 páginas
...recanted them. ' ' He then read a resolution adopted by the Convention which nominated him, declaring, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of... | |
| Elbert B. Smith - 1975 - 252 páginas
...religious belief."1 The Carolinians conveniently ignored the Republican party platform's pledge to the "maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." The platform did not even require the president to seek legislation against slavery in a territory... | |
| Kenneth M. Stampp - 1981 - 342 páginas
...barbarism— Polygamy and Slavery." In 1 860 this clause was dropped. The new platform promised to respect "the right of each state to order and control its...institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." It stated less directly that slavery ought to be excluded from the territories and that this could... | |
| Indiana - 1861 - 642 páginas
...interfere with any of the laws passed under and by authority of the same. Resolved, That the Hiaintainance of the rights of the States and especially the right...the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and that we as a portion of the people will abide by and maintain the same in theory and practice... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 236 páginas
...recanted them.'' He then read a resolution adopted by the Convention which nominated him, declaring, "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of... | |
| Daniel W. Crofts - 1993 - 540 páginas
...of 1860 directly addressed southern concerns, advocating "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of States, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions," while condemning any "lawless invasion" of a state or territory "as among the gravest of crimes." Republican... | |
| 1862 - 602 páginas
...platform in the last contest was adopted at Chicago in 1860, and the fourth article was as follows : — ' The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic institutions, of course, mean slavery. Further, an Act was passed by Congress, on... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...involved "an unqualified property in persons"?35 Would he stand by the part of the platform which pledged "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively"?36 Was the belief that he had so often uttered representative of the true Lincoln: "A... | |
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