 | James Breckinridge Waller - 1880 - 104 páginas
...slave law, that in his speech at Ottawa he publicly said: " I would give them (the Southern people) any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives,...which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one!" In... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1892 - 398 páginas
...well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We c.umot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the south." Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, p. 74. the legislature; but the split which the slavery question... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 páginas
...any rate, yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our people of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, fully... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 páginas
...not introduce it. If it did now exist among us, we should not instantly give it up. ... It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South." Repeatedly he admitted the difficulty of the problem, and fastened no blame upon those Southerners... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 páginas
...whether well or ifl-f ounded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...which should not, in its stringency ? be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. But... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 336 páginas
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. WH cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...their fugitives which should not, in its stringency, bo more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 páginas
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. Equal justice to the South, it is said, requires us to consent to the extension of slavery to new countries.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 páginas
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot then make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. Equal justice to the South, it is said, requires us to consent to the extension of slavery to new countries.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1895 - 584 páginas
...well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It • does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one. "But... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 298 páginas
...slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. . . . The law which forbids the. bnnging^pf slaves jrom Africajjmd that which has so long forbidden... | |
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When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, -which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a... 
