| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 páginas
...before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 782 páginas
...them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. |_One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. ' The fugitiveslave clause of the Constitution, and the law for... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 páginas
...before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for... | |
| Waldo W. Braden - 1993 - 132 páginas
...demanded, and that the conflict was not serious. He brought this argument to a climax when he said: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute." As a part of his strategy, Lincoln sought to establish common... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - 486 páginas
...Address, Lincoln asserted that slavery was the cause of the North-South conflict: "One section of the country believes slavery is right and ought to be...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."2 Four years of bloody warfare served to strengthen Lincoln's... | |
| Hadley Arkes - 1992 - 296 páginas
...inaugural address, Lincoln reflected precisely on the sense of prudence that preserved these arrangements. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for... | |
| Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - 1989 - 524 páginas
...before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for... | |
| Peter Charles Hoffer - 1990 - 324 páginas
...the ghost of Banquo at Macbeth's coronation feast. President-elect Lincoln admitted "one section nf our country believes slavery is right and ought to...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute."6 2 He foreswore abolition of slavery where positive law established... | |
| 1912 - 752 páginas
...sentences from Lincoln's inaugural address confirm this fact : "One section of our country believes that slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the...believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. That is the only substantial dispute." WHAT SETTLED THE SLAVERY QUESTION. The whole controversy was... | |
| Robert Walter Johannsen - 1973 - 1012 páginas
...Republican administration. He reduced the dispute between the north and south to its simplest expression: "One section of our country believes slavery is right,...believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended." On the question of compromise, Lincoln recognized the authority of the people to amend the Constitution,... | |
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