 Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national territories,...  Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln - Page 60by Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 pages
...full recognition, as being right; but thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? . . . Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States? If our sense of duty forbids this ... let us be diverted by no sophistical contrivances,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle. * * * * * Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 268 pages
...destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle. ***** Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...against our own t In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do thist Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories and to overrun us here in these free States t If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 72 pages
...consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can. Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 pages
...against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 460 pages
...against our own ? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this? Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...own? in view of our moral, social and political responsibility, •can we do this? Wrong as we may think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone...the national territories, and to overrun us here in these free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1896 - 636 pages
...persuasions of those false friends, who, as today, pleaded for compromise with wrong? His answer was: If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously... | |
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