...demanded, and that the conflict was not serious. He brought this argument to a climax when he said: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." As a part of his strategy,...

...Address, Lincoln asserted that slavery was the cause of the North-South conflict: "One section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."2 Four years of bloody...

...eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly...ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause...

...inaugural address, Lincoln reflected precisely on the sense of prudence that preserved these arrangements. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause...

...the ghost of Banquo at Macbeth's coronation feast. President-elect Lincoln admitted "one section nf our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."6 2 He foreswore abolition...

...sentences from Lincoln's inaugural address confirm this fact : "One section of our country believes that slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. That is the only substantial dispute." WHAT SETTLED THE SLAVERY...

...eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first inaugural address (final text), March 4, 1861.— The Collected Works...

...of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave...

...eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes." Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM...

...eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly...seek to turn their decisions to political purposes." Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM...