 Little by little, but steadily as man's march to the grave, we have been giving up the old for the new faith. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration,...  Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time - Página 522por Robert Henry Browne - 1901Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - 2002 - 724 páginas
...Lincoln told a tale of lost virtue: "Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down...for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a 'sacred right of self government.' "Lincoln was appealing to a pre-Jacksonian age to cure the evils of the world that... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 238 páginas
.... .we have been giving up the old for the new faith.... we began declaring tlwt all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, tlwt for some men to enslave others is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles cannot... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - 2004 - 251 páginas
...right.' " "Nearly] eighty years ago," Lincoln observed, "we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down...'sacred right of self-government.' " "These principles," he added, "can not stand together." He called on his audience to return slavery "to the position our... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...Lincoln told the Peoria audience, "Near eighty years ago, we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down...enslave others is a 'sacred right of selfgovernment.'" Instead of promoting slavery, it was time to admit that slavery was "fatally violating the noblest... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2002 - 190 páginas
...was evil and could only breed evil. "We began," said Lincoln, "by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down...for some men to enslave others is a 'sacred right of government.' These principles cannot stand together." By 1860, there seemed to be no way around it.... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 páginas
...declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down the other direction, that for some men to enslave others is a 'sacred right of self-government.' These principles cannot stand together," he concluded.25 Clearly, Lincoln condemned American slavery. Even so, this... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 páginas
...faith. ...we began declaring that all men are created equal; but nvwfrom that beginning we have nm down to the other declaration, that for some men to..."sacred right of self-government. " These principles cannot stand together. . . . Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence. . . . If we do this we... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...was rapidly being replaced by a "new faith," represented by the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The new faith, "that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a 'sacred right of self-government.'" was really the same as the "old argument for the 'Divine Right of Kings.'" The restoration of the Missouri... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - 2005 - 194 páginas
...ideas into ordinary language: "Nearly eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning, we have run down...'sacred right of self-government.' These principles cannot stand together" (Lincoln, 1940d, p. 374). He enlarged this point of the incompatibility of slavery... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 páginas
...up the OLD for the NEW faith. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal, but now from that beginning we have run down...'sacred right of self-government.' These principles cannot stand together. They are as opposite as God and Mammon; and whoever holds to the one must despise... | |
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