...courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the na- f tion. STAND BY DUTY. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...could readily grant, if we thought slavery right. * * If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively. *...

...blessing. "Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground, save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions...should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we can not justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they can not justly insist...

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...style in which most of his later public documents were written. " If slavery is right," he said, " all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends...

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...(37) Nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension—its...

...Institute, he put the question of the constitutional rights of slavery in the following logical form : "If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws and constitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality — its universality; if it...

...that which Lincoln made to the champions of serfdom in the republic, — • "All they ask we could as readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong." The issue is clear : Is commercial bondage of a nation's art to be considered right or wrong...

...justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery' is rignt, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it...we ask they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right and our thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends...

...blessing nor can we justifiably withhold this on any ground save our conviction that slavery is wrong. If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions...wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension. All they ask we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask they could as readily...