 | 1896 - 624 páginas
...fruit. If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, couW the act of electing have been evil ? " But I will...without violation of principle, if they had chosen. " I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either shall think fit to... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1924 - 290 páginas
...hear that you intended to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in...was working for a nomination to Congress. In 1843 he had helped elect his friend ILirdin. He had secured the nomination for Baker in 1844 and had worked... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 páginas
...hear that you intended to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 312 páginas
...paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, _and perhaps to liberty itself y (paradox though it may seem) , to let the slavery...was working for a nomination to Congress. In 1843 he had helped elect his friend Hardin. He had secured the nomination for Baker in 1844 and had worked... | |
 | Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 322 páginas
...while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that we should never knowingly lend ourselYes^ directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 350 páginas
...hear that you intended to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 446 páginas
...hear that you intended to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 350 páginas
...knowingly lend ourselves, directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death—to find new places for it to live in when it can no longer...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together; and if you and he or either... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 páginas
...extension, etc., of slavery would it not have been good, and not evil, so to have used your votes, «ven though it involved the casting of them for a slave-holder?...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together, and if you and he, or either,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 332 páginas
...otherwise might have been liberated. To whatever extent this may be true, I think annexation an evil. / 1 hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the 'free...you, if I could, that they could have prevented it, if they had chosen. I intend this letter for you and Madison together, and if you and he, or either,... | |
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It always seemed to me that slaves would be taken there in about equal numbers, with or without annexation. And if more were taken because of annexation, still there would be just so many the fewer left where they were taken from. It is possibly true,... 
