 That sight was a continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making...  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 80by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Julia Henrietta Gulliver - Democracy - 1917 - 114 pages
...together at Louisville and this is what he said of it: "That sight was a continued torment to me. ... It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." The Constitution and the Union! These were the starry heavens that in Lincoln's mind towered above... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 354 pages
...close friend, Joshua F. Speed, whose views were not at that time in accord with Mr. Lincoln, he said: "You ought rather to appreciate how much the great...their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." 10 7 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, VoL II., p. 260. * Ibid., p. 207. • Ibid., pp. 234-235. 10... | |
 | Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 704 pages
...close friend, Joshua F. Speed, whose views were not at that time in accord with Mr. Lincoln, he said: "You ought rather to appreciate how much the great...their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." 10 7 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, VoL II., p. 260. "Ibid., p. 207. _ On the 29th of May, 1856,... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 pages
...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...thing which has, and continually exercises, the power to make me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 732 pages
...honest attention to the cases intrusted to him. In 1841 he visited the South, and he called slavery "a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable." From 1847 to 1849 ne sat m Congress (§ 230). When the KansasNebraska question arose, Lincoln came... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feeling so prompt me, and I am under... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery because my judgment and feeling so prompt me, and I am under no... | |
 | Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, Martha Tucker Stephenson - United States - 1921 - 674 pages
...slaveholders. His views were similar to those of Channing (section 258), and yet he spoke of slavery as "a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable." 304. John Brown's Raid. In the midst of these disputes our whole people, North and South, were astounded... | |
 | Douglas Horton - Conduct of life - 1924 - 300 pages
...later of that experience: "That night was a continual torment to me." From then on slavery is to him "a thing which has and continually exercises the power of making me miserable." Combating the slavery evil became his calling. God chose him to be a reformer. 28 In view of such examples,... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 586 pages
...continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exerts, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of... | |
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