...of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to HL Pierce and others, April 6, 1859.— The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,...

...example here which we will discuss in detail in chapter 3. In 1859, Lincoln praised Jefferson effusively: "All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the...merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so embalm it there, that today and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block...

...its author on their own side in the coming war. In a letter of April 1859, Lincoln wrote: All honour to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure...merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling...

...own side in the coming war. In a letter of April 1859, Lincoln wrote: All honour to Jefferson—to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling...

...compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it. Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others, April 6, 1859, reprinted in Collected...

...Lincoln's wise words: '"He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.'"" Lowell, who was already an active member of the New England Anti-Imperialist League, characteristically...

...political father of his country," was deeply implicated in that calamity. UNION All honor to Jefferson—to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle...merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling...

...their nullity before the courts of ordinary law. "All honor to Jefferson," Lincoln declared in 1859, "to the man who in the concrete pressure of a struggle...into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth."56 Abstraction was, indeed, the heart of the technique: the elevation of practical claims into...

...of compensation; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it" (1953, 3:376). We cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. This is so because human social life is...

...world of compensations; and he who be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. A universal feeling whether well or illfounded, cannot be safely disregarded. The strongest bond of...