...develops itself. It is the same principle that says, 'You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' That is the issue that will continue in this country...tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent." We find ourselves in the heat of that struggle now. Whether in Lincoln or in Isaiah, it is the conviction...

...side of the question, he summed up his views in this way : " That is the real issue [of slavery]. ... It is the eternal struggle between these two principles...beginning of time ; and will ever continue to struggle. One is the common right of humanity and the other is the divine right of kings. ... It is the same...

...of moral issues. Abraham Lincoln said over the struggle of his time: "The real issue in this country is the eternal struggle between these two principles...throughout the world. They are the two principles which have stood face to f»ce from the beginnmg^of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one...

...around which all their actions, all their arguments, circle, from which all their propositions radiate. That is the real issue. That is the issue that will...poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silenced. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — • throughout...

...The real issue, he declared, was the right or wrong of slavery, — not any constitutional theory: "It is the eternal struggle between these two principles...throughout the world. They are the two principles which have -stood face to face from the beginning of time, and which mil ever continue to struggle....

...institution of slavery as a wrong, and of another class that does not look upon it as a wrong. . . . That is the real issue. That is the issue that will...poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be sDent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the...

...practices and policy which harmonize with it." The contest is, he said, an "eternal struggle between . . . two principles that have stood face to face from the...beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people...

...from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. That is the real issue which will continue in this country when these poor tongues...have stood face to face from the beginning of time. The one is the common right of humanity, the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle...

...history could not teach us the eternal ethical truths that are born from the struggle for freedom: "That is the real issue. That is the issue that will...from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle."65 Ultimately whether an idea was right or wrong had little to do with politics but instead...

...body which should not be allowed to spread. That is the real issue," he said, or words to that effect. "That is the issue that will continue in this country...principles — right and wrong throughout the world. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings, which says, 'You work...