...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...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: — of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions...

...States where it exists." I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have uo inclination to do so. And, more than this, they placed in the platform,...the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: /:. -•...'>..>, That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of tho States, and especially the right...

...afford security. The Ciiicago manifesto of the Northern party, now supreme, adopts as its fourth article the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states,...to order and control its own domestic institutions, while the small party of thorough-going abolitionists, •without political importance, though now...

...of directly opposite character, in thesa words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the rights •/ the States, and especially the right of each State...and control its own domestic institutions according toils own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and...

...made this and many similar declarations, and have never recanted them. And more, than this, they were placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, in the clear and emphatic resolution which I now n-ad. I now reiterate those sentiments, and in doing...

...the last Presidential election, declared its doctrine on this point in tho following words : — ' That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each to order and control its domestic institutions, according to its own jndgment exclusively, is essential...

...inclination to interfere with slavery where it existed, and that he would maintain inviolate the rights of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment. But this had no effect in staying the progress of secession. In April Fort Sumter was bombarded, and...

...made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them. And more than this, they were placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, in the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read. I now reiterate those sentiments, and in doing...

...opposite character, in these words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the right» pf the Statte, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own dome»tic instiVot. П.— Doc. 19 tutione according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential...

...contrary, I find in the Chicago Platform a resolution of directly opposite character, in these words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the riyht of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment...