...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...

...and as a law to themselves, and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: "Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we...

...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...

...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...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and that...

...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...

...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,...to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.' Domestic...

...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...

...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That...

....as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: " 'Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless...

...only nominated Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate but also passed a resolution declaring "that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." That...