 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 880 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... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1921 - 876 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 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...government under which we live" ; while you with one accord recriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavour to... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 1924 - 198 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. . . . Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the century within which... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 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... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 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... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy . . . which was adopted by 'our fathers who framed the government...policy, and insist upon substituting something new." The South alleges that Republicans have made the slavery issue more prominent. True, the issue is more... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...slavery; they adhered "to the old and tried, against the new and untried," while Southern fire-eaters "with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy." This gave him a welcome opening to explain the Republican attitude toward the raid that John Brown... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 592 pages
...conservative defense of slavery's restriction. ("We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy adopted by our fathers who framed the Government under which we live; while you [southerners and Democrats] with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist... | |
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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... 
