 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1999 - 612 páginas
...origin of slavery than we, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any...myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not knoiv what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the existing... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 páginas
...origin of slavery, than we; I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any...not blame them for not doing what I should not know to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I would not know what to do, as to the existing institution.... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 2000 - 366 páginas
...give it up When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of, in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate...them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself."30 But while Lincoln possessed a sense of the relativity of knowledge, an attribute that prevented... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - 2001 - 148 páginas
...pernicious as slavery. He allowed that his Southern contemporaries had not created the institution, and that "it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way." His own preference was to "free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia," but he knew the "sudden... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 2004 - 372 páginas
...origin of slavery than we, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it. in any...way. I can understand and appreciate the saying. I will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...amongst us, we should not instantly give it up. . . . When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any...not doing what I should not know how to do myself." And, finally, "when they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them . . . and I would... | |
 | Wallace Rice - 2005 - 105 páginas
...satisfaction that another man shall be disappointed. FO U RT E_E_N TH Take your full time. FIFT EENTH I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. DECEMBER SIXTEENTH The man and the dollar, but, in case of conflict, the man before the dollar. SEV... | |
 | C. L. Corey - 2004 - 218 páginas
...t'other"(38). Lincoln himself said in 1854 in answer to Judge Douglas; "I will not blame (the South) for not doing what I should not know how to do myself . . . free them . . . politically and socially our equals? My feelings will not admit this . . . (and)... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 páginas
...origin of slavery, than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand nnd appreciate the saying. I surely will not. blame them for not doing what I should not know how to... | |
 | Mark A. Graber - 2006 - 300 páginas
...emancipation presented intractable political problems. "When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way," he proclaimed during the debates with Douglas, "I can understand and appreciate the saying." "If all... | |
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I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how... 
