...the territories; the rest of the program he could accept, but he wrote to a Republican associate to "entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery." So the last chance to settle the business had gone, except for the things that might happen in the...

...the territories; the rest of the program he could accept, but he wrote to a Republican associate to "entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery. " So the last chance to settle the business had gone, except for the things that might happen in the...

...party's men had been elected, the cause that had pulled together their large but fragile coalition. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," Lincoln wrote his allies in Washington. "The tug has to come, and better now than any time hereafter."...

...the principle of nonextension of slavery, Lincoln quietly but firmly counseled friends in Congress, "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery." For his refusal to compromise, perhaps making war irrepressible, he was criticized by contemporaries...

...South.61 Some Republicans seemed tempted to accept the compromise, but Lincoln would have none of it. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," Lincoln instructed key senators and congressmen. In January, Crittenden took his plan to the Senate...

...ready to support a guarantee of slavery in the states where it already existed, but advised, ". . . entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over. . . . The tug has to come and better now than later." Thus the most promising of the compromise efforts...

...Caribbean and Latin America. As Lincoln confidentially warned William Kellogg, his spokesman in Congress: "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...Douglas is sure to be again trying to bring in his 'Pop.Sov.' [sic] Have none of it. The tug has to come & better now than later."61 By 1860 the North...

...quickly at the deal. He dashed off letters marked "Private & confidential" to congressional Republicans. "Entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," he told one of them. "The instant you do, they have us under again; all our labor is lost, and sooner...

...ready to support a guarantee of slavery in the states where it already existed, but advised, ". . . entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard...labor is lost, and sooner or later must be done over. . . . The tug has to come and better now than later." Thus the most promising of the compromise efforts...

...federal support for the expansion of slavery. But president-elect Lincoln told fellow Republicans to "entertain no proposition for a compromise in regard to the extension of slavery," and they voted the measures down.66 Perhaps Lincoln and other Northern leaders did not realize the...