...and Whigs, acknowledged the obligation to preserve "the rights of the States . . . inviolate . . . , and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions . . . exclusively, 'rights' essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance...

...resistance to the extension of slavery. Its platform also denounced John Brown's raid and recognized the right of each state "to order and control its own domestic institutions." Lincoln had already struck a moderate tone, stating his view that slavery was "an evil, not to be extended,...

...implicit threat of secession.3 The Republican platform maintained inviolate the rights of the states, especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions; in other words, it guaranteed slavery in the slave states. The Republicans rejected the new dogma that...

...elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And, more than this, they placed in...resolution which I now read: Resolved: that the maintenance incluíate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and contra!...

...so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never re20 canted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform...That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the 25 States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions...

...so with full knowledge that l had made this and many similar declarations and had never re20 canted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform...and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which l now read: Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the 25 States, and especially...

...to abide by the legal and moral implications of a doctrine of inalienable rights. Lincoln recognized "the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its judgment exclusively," but in the covenant view, that right must express the rights of the people,...

...— in the words of the Republican platform, quoted by Lincoln in his first inaugural address — of "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States,...domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively."23 Douglass biographer Benjamin Quarles, citing an 1859 letter to Garrison from Hinton...

...Chicago, Republicans passed a unanimous resolution endorsing "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of States, and especially the right of each State to...institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." In case the resolution's message was unclear, they passed another that condemned "the lawless invasion...

...treason, which it is the imperative duty of an indignant People sternly to rebuke and forever silence. 4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless...