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...inclination to do so."49 This was the same course announced in the 1860 Republican platform, which read: That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the lawless...

...of 186o directly addressed southern concerns, advocating "the maintenance inviolate of the rights of States, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions," while condemning any "lawless invasion" of a state or territory "as among the gravest of crimes." Republican...

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...especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions . . .[,] "rights' essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." The phrasing comes from resolutions two and four of the Republican Party Platform...

...and Whigs, acknowledged the obligation to preserve "the rights of the States . . . inviolate . . . , and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions . . . exclusively, 'rights' essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance...

...the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution resemble, but are not identical to, those for honoring the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions. In both instances it is the law of the Constitution, and fidelity to the Constitution is a sine qua...

...compensated emancipation. In his 1861 inaugural address Lincoln had stressed the Republican acceptance of the right of each state "to order and control its own domestic institutions," and he reaffirmed that pledge whenever possible. Yet there were doubters in Kentucky from the start...