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" But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the... "
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Page 202
by William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 pages
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Lincoln's Words on Living Questions: A Collection of All the Recorded ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy, which was adopted by "our fathers who...policy, and insist upon substituting something new. (March 6, 1860, Speech at New Haven, Conn. — Complete Works, Vol. I, p. 622.) You say you think slavery...
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Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and Letters

Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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The American Idea as Expounded by American Statesmen

Joseph Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Old South Leaflets

United States - 1902 - 510 pages
...tried, against the new and untried ? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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The American Idea as Expounded by American Statesmen

United States - 1902 - 354 pages
...tried, against the new and untried ? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 16

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...tried against a new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Old South Leaflets: General series

United States - 1902 - 512 pages
...tried, against the new and untried ? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...substituting something new. True, you disagree among selves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you...
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Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 362 pages
...for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who 10 framed the government under which we live " ; while...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are 15 divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the...
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