 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - Presidents - 1924 - 290 pages
...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 bringing of slaves from Africa, and that which has so long forbidden... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...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 adopted; but for their tardiness, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South; they remind us of their Constitutional rights;... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...might be adopted : but, for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their constitutional...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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 516 pages
...whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their constitutional rights, 1 acknowledge them, not grudgingly,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...be safely disregarded. We cannot make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual 18590 emancipation might be adopted ; "but for their tardiness...I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the sonth. " When they remind us of their constitutional rights I acknowledge them, not grudgingly, but... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...well or ill founded, can not be safely disregarded. We can not, 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 all... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...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...for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to j udge our brethren of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American literature - 1905 - 350 pages
...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...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 all... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 452 pages
...whether well or ill founded cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot make them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be...When they remind us of their constitutional rights I jicknowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly ; and I would give them any legislation for... | |
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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... 
