The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Arnold Douglas; Containing Also Lincoln's Address at Cooper InstituteHolt, 1905 - 297 стор. |
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... Constitution of the United States there could be any interference from an external source with slavery in any state where it already existed . The aspect in which the slavery problem presented itself to the American people , therefore ...
... Constitution of the United States there could be any interference from an external source with slavery in any state where it already existed . The aspect in which the slavery problem presented itself to the American people , therefore ...
Сторінка xiii
... Constitution and the Union itself . Then there were those of more moderate views , embracing the great bulk of people of all parties who lay between these two extremes . The mass of people in the South deemed slavery the real source of ...
... Constitution and the Union itself . Then there were those of more moderate views , embracing the great bulk of people of all parties who lay between these two extremes . The mass of people in the South deemed slavery the real source of ...
Сторінка xv
... constitution which for- bade the legislature to make any restrictions upon slavery . In the territory south of 36 ° 30 ′ , slavery was permitted . This Act of Congress , though capable of repeal like any other act , had been enacted ...
... constitution which for- bade the legislature to make any restrictions upon slavery . In the territory south of 36 ° 30 ′ , slavery was permitted . This Act of Congress , though capable of repeal like any other act , had been enacted ...
Сторінка xxv
... Constitution of the United States . " Against the accusation that he was guilty of political unfaith in moving the appeal of the Missouri Compromise , he ingeniously contended that the repeal had in effect been accomplished by the ...
... Constitution of the United States . " Against the accusation that he was guilty of political unfaith in moving the appeal of the Missouri Compromise , he ingeniously contended that the repeal had in effect been accomplished by the ...
Сторінка xxviii
... constitution which excluded slavery , they applied to Congress for admission as a state . In December , 1855 , two rival governments existed in the territory , and brawls and bloodshed were of frequent occurrence . President Pierce ...
... constitution which excluded slavery , they applied to Congress for admission as a state . In December , 1855 , two rival governments existed in the territory , and brawls and bloodshed were of frequent occurrence . President Pierce ...
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Сторінка 290 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Сторінка 57 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Сторінка 240 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Сторінка 224 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Сторінка 87 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Сторінка 116 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Сторінка 31 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Сторінка xlviii - ... otherwise called *' sacred right of self-government," which latter phrase, though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : That if any one man choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. That argument was incorporated...
Сторінка 236 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President ! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Сторінка 194 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.