 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 78 pages
...speech at Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, Lincoln said: "When they [the people of the south] remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge...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. * *... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 68 pages
...speech at Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, Lincoln said: "When they [the people of the south] remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge...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. * *... | |
 | T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 248 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...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... | |
 | Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 pages
...one man from holding them." On the fifth proposition, Mr. Lincoln said: "When they remind us of then1 constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not grudgingly,...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. ...... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 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...South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights,2 I ac1 On May 5, 1821, territory was secured in Liberia for colonization and a colony soon... | |
 | John Henry Arnold - Debates and debating - 1923 - 328 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...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... | |
 | 1924 - 616 pages
...equals, but suggesting that gradual systems of emancipation might be adopted by the states, he added: "but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. But all this to my judgment furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our free territory... | |
 | History - 1924 - 372 pages
...equals, but suggesting that gradual systems of emancipation might be adopted by the states, he added: "but for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. But all this to my judgment furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go in to our free territory... | |
 | 1925 - 504 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...grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I would give them legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not in its stringency be more likely... | |
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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... 
