 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
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 642 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...alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessitv arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent... | |
 | 1902 - 512 pages
...against our own ? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this M Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it V'/alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - 1902 - 888 pages
...them in calling it right. All this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in wordi. * * If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by OUf duty, fttrleMly and effectivelv. '•<" us be diverted by none of thoM sophistical contrivances... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 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 - 1903 - 394 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... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1903 - 478 pages
...but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread in.o the national Territories, ancl to overrun us here in the free States ? If our sense...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... | |
 | George Washington Platt - 1904 - 392 pages
...before his election as President in November, 1860 (The Cooper Union Speech, February, 1860) : "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 ?" It will be of interest, before taking up the history of the immediate casual events... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 362 pages
...against our own ? In view of our moral, social, and political responsi10 bilities, can we do this? Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it...presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will pre15 vent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 452 pages
...votes 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... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 700 pages
...by Federal control of it on Federal soil. Lincoln did not attack slavery in the slave States: "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? " The contrast was complete: the South was accusing antislavery of attacking and... | |
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