 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 páginas
...debate. The true issue as the morality and future of slavery. "That is the issue that will centime in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas...silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two princ pies — right and wrong — throughout the world . . . from the beginr ing of time. . . . The... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - 1989 - 340 páginas
...last debate, Lincoln eloquently stated the question facing the country: [Slavery] is the issue which will continue in this country when these poor tongues...principles — right and wrong throughout the world. . . . And whenever we can get rid of the fog that obscures the real question — when we can get Judge... | |
 | Jean H. Baker - 1987 - 452 páginas
...does not look upon it as a wrong — that is the real issue. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time. . . . Douglas looks to no end of the institution of slavery." On this point Lincoln, who himself looked... | |
 | David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 páginas
...people over a false issue. At this point, Lincoln elaborated his sense of the moral issue, "the real issue . . . that will continue in this country when...poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent."99 He wove together his view of the morality of slavery and his ascription of the same view... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 páginas
...referred to the "eternal struggle" between right and wrong. "That is the real issue," he had said. "That is the issue that will continue in this country...tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent." His prophecy was sound, yet the "poor tongues" still speak. A NOTE ABOUT THE TEXTS Three weeks after... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 páginas
...Lincoln put the text about eating the bread of one's own sweat in an American context of antimonarchism: That is the issue that will continue in this country...eternal struggle between these two principles — right or wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the... | |
 | Burke McCarty - 1993 - 282 páginas
...will continue in this country when the poor tongues of Judge Douglass and myself shall be silentIt is the eternal struggle between these two principles...continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humaniiy and the other, the divine right of kings it is the same spirit that says : "You work and toil... | |
 | David F. Ericson - 1993 - 252 páginas
...social and political evil." Finally, at Alton, he characterizes "the real issue" of the debates as "the eternal struggle between these two principles...beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle" (Johannsen, pp. 50-51, 220, 226, 319 [Lincoln]).57 Without denying the increasing centrality of a nonsectarian... | |
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That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles... 
