...fore them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. 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,...

...no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of onr country believes Slavery is right and ought to be...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...

...intelligence have brought these to be an advantageous combination for one united people. One section of onr country believes slavery is right and ought to be...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...

...before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...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...

...1955 by the Abraham Lincoln Association. Reprinted by petmission of the Rutgers University Press. 3 "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...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 20 where the...

...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,...be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." As a part of his strategy, Lincoln sought to establish common ground with southern countrymen through...

...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...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."2 Four years of bloody warfare served to strengthen Lincoln's conviction that the resolution...

...before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...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...

...inaugural address, Lincoln reflected precisely on the sense of prudence that preserved these arrangements. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...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...

...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...ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."6 2 He foreswore abolition of slavery where positive law established it, but secessionists...