 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 pages
...What they could, they did."21 "As those fathers marked it," Lincoln urged on the eve of the Civil War, "so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended,...presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity."22 Slavery was an evil to be tolerated, allowed to enter the Constitution only by the back... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...all Republicans ask- all Republicans desire -in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, 309 so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended,...toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers gave it, be, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained. For this Republicans... | |
 | Robert Lang - Performing Arts - 1994 - 328 pages
...government originally placed it upon." By this, Lincoln meant that "as those fathers marked [slavery], so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended,...to be tolerated and protected only because of and only so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity." (Quoted... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, William M. Keith - Philosophy - 1997 - 740 pages
...speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask — all Republicans desire — in relation to slavery. As those fathers...as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity,... | |
 | Alan G. Gross, William M. Keith - Philosophy - 1997 - 384 pages
...they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask—all Republicans desire—in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, so...as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity,... | |
 | Alan G. Gross - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 384 pages
...speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask — all Republicans desire — in relation to slavery. As those fathers...as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1924 - 568 pages
...the founders of the Republic, showing that they regarded slavery " as an evil not to be extended, and to be tolerated and protected only, because of, and...makes that toleration and protection a necessity." His closing words were these: " Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith, let us,... | |
 | John R. McKivigan - History - 1999 - 424 pages
...American Revolution (Durham, NO Carolina Academic Press, 1978), 91. 244 THE PoLmcAL SCIENCE REVIEWER but to be tolerated and protected only because of...presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity."s The Constitution did not institute slavery but rather established laws to regulate a condition... | |
 | Andrew R. L. Cayton, Susan E. Gray - History - 2001 - 270 pages
...argued that the authors of the Constitution personally endorsed that position. Slavery was therefore "an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and...makes that toleration and protection a necessity. " In short, the founders intended to let Southerners keep their slaves but not to take them into any... | |
 | Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. Deblack, Morris S. Arnold - History - 2002 - 474 pages
...domestic institutions." Lincoln had already struck a moderate tone, stating his view that slavery was "an evil, not to be extended, but to be tolerated...makes that toleration and protection a necessity." Such distinctions had long since been lost on many Southerners, however. The Little Rock True Democrat... | |
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Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask— all Republicans desire— in relation to slavery. As those fathers... 
