 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,...  Old South Leaflets - Page 1591902 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1902 - 512 pages
...Y national Territories, and to overrun us here in these free States ? If our sense of duty forbid^ 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 plied and belabored... | |
 | 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
...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,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored—contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong: vain... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 362 pages
...votes will pre15 vent 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,...diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances 20 wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 pages
...votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories, and to overrun us here in th& free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then...ground between the right and the wrong, vain 'as the searcHTof'a man who should be neither a living man nor'a dead man; such as a policy of 'don't care,ron... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 pages
...it, allow it to spread into the national territories, and to overrun us here in the free States? lf our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. \ot in dumb resignation We lift our hands on high; Not like the nerreless fatalist, Content to trust... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 pages
...extension, its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right. * * If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand...our duty fearlessly and effectively. * * * Let us have faith that right-makes might; and, in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty as we... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 414 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,...contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between right and wrong: vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living man nor a dead man ; such... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1909 - 330 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,...contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored—contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain... | |
 | Charles Washington Moores - 1909 - 144 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,...let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. . . . Neither let us he slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from... | |
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