The Opinions of Abraham Lincoln Upon Slavery and Its Issues: Indicated by His Speeches, Letters, Messages, and Proclamations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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We believe, nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself. The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the Government under which we live, is this very thing. To repress this thing, we think, is providing for the general welfare.
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We believe, nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself. The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the Government under which we live, is this very thing. To repress this thing, we think, is providing for the general welfare.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Opinions of Abraham Lincoln Upon Slavery and Its Issues: Indicated by His Speeches, Letters, Messages, and Proclamations
I believe it has endured, because during all that time, until the introduction of the Nebraska bill, the public mind did rest all time in the belief that slavery was in the course of ultimate extinction. That was what give us the rest that we had through that period of eighty-two years; at least so I believe. I Have Always Hated Slavery, I Think, As Much As Any Abolitionist.
Slavery a Vast Moral Evil.
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The American people look upon slavery as a vast moral evil; they can prove it such by the writings of those who gave us the blessings of liberty which we enjoy; and that they so looked upon it, and not as an evil merely confining itself to the States where it is situated.
The Infallibility of the Dred Scott Decision Questioned.
From the same.
I have never heard of such a thing [the sacredness of the Dred Scott decision.] Why, decisions apparently contrary to that decision have been made by that very court before. It is the first of its kind; it is an astonisher in legal history. It is a new wonder of the world. It is based upon falsehood in the main as to the facts. Allegations of facts, upon which it stands, are not facts at all, in many instances. And no decision made on any question - the first instance of a decision made under so many unfavorable circumstances - thus placed, has ever been held by the profession as law, and it has always needed confirmation before the lawyers regarded it as settled law.
The Manner in which the White and Black Races can do each other most good.
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I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I did not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either, but, as God made us separate, we can leave one another alone, and do one another much good thereby. There are white men enough to marry all the white women, and enough black men to marry all the black women; and, in God's name, let them be so married.
The Declaration of Independence our Bond of Union with all mankind.
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In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live, for these Fourth of July celebrations. But after we have done all this, we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have, besides these, men - descended by blood from our ancestors - among us, perhaps half our people, who are not descendants at all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe - German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian - men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history, to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none; they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal;" and then they feel that that moral sentiment, taught in that day, evidences their relation to those men; that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration - and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, and will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
The assumption that Slavery is right does not stop with one race.
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I believe it has endured, because during all that time, until the introduction of the Nebraska bill, the public mind did rest all time in the belief that slavery was in the course of ultimate extinction. That was what give us the rest that we had through that period of eighty-two years; at least so I believe. I Have Always Hated Slavery, I Think, As Much As Any Abolitionist.
Slavery a Vast Moral Evil.
From the same.
The American people look upon slavery as a vast moral evil; they can prove it such by the writings of those who gave us the blessings of liberty which we enjoy; and that they so looked upon it, and not as an evil merely confining itself to the States where it is situated.
The Infallibility of the Dred Scott Decision Questioned.
From the same.
I have never heard of such a thing [the sacredness of the Dred Scott decision.] Why, decisions apparently contrary to that decision have been made by that very court before. It is the first of its kind; it is an astonisher in legal history. It is a new wonder of the world. It is based upon falsehood in the main as to the facts. Allegations of facts, upon which it stands, are not facts at all, in many instances. And no decision made on any question - the first instance of a decision made under so many unfavorable circumstances - thus placed, has ever been held by the profession as law, and it has always needed confirmation before the lawyers regarded it as settled law.
The Manner in which the White and Black Races can do each other most good.
From the same.
I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I did not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either, but, as God made us separate, we can leave one another alone, and do one another much good thereby. There are white men enough to marry all the white women, and enough black men to marry all the black women; and, in God's name, let them be so married.
The Declaration of Independence our Bond of Union with all mankind.
From the same.
In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live, for these Fourth of July celebrations. But after we have done all this, we have not yet reached the whole. There is something else connected with it. We have, besides these, men - descended by blood from our ancestors - among us, perhaps half our people, who are not descendants at all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe - German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian - men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history, to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none; they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal;" and then they feel that that moral sentiment, taught in that day, evidences their relation to those men; that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration - and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, and will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
The assumption that Slavery is right does not stop with one race.
From the same.
Turn in whate
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- VerlagForgotten Books
- Erscheinungsdatum2018
- ISBN 10 1330852656
- ISBN 13 9781330852651
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