 That sight was a continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making...  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 54by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pages
...me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border. It is hardly fair for you to assume, that I have no interest in...maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feelings so prompt me; and I am under... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pages
...me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slaveborder. It is hardly fair for you to assume, that I have no interest in...maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feelings so prompt me; and I am under... | |
 | David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 pages
...merely local concern.36 Lincoln himself had written his friend Joshua Speed in 1855 that it was untrue "that I have no interest in a thing which has, and...continually exercises, the power of making me miserable." If northerners refrained from giving voice to their moral concerns, that was because they "do crucify... | |
 | David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 pages
...miserable." If northerners refrained from giving voice to their moral concerns, that was because they "do crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union."37 Like Douglas, Lincoln thought in terms of biblical analogies. Jaffa explains that men under... | |
 | 1991 - 630 pages
...Illinois politician had to remind a Kentucky friend. On the slavery question, he warned, "You ought ... to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern...their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." Chesnut would have been taken aback had he known that these were Abraham Lincoln's words, but the future... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2, p. 320. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). It is hardly fair for you to assume, that I have no interest in...continually exercises, the power of making me miserable. Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2,... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...to me; I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave border. It is hardly fair for you to assume that I have no interest in...and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable.49 In a speech on January 27, 1837, Abraham Lincoln forewarned: At what point then is the... | |
 | Douglas Lawson Wilson, Douglas L. Wilson, Rodney O. Davis, Terry Wilson, William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1998 - 868 pages
...2. ALs otiginal reads "untewarded." like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume, that I have no interest...Northern people do crucify their feelings, in order to mainrain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union, I do oppose the extension of slavery, because... | |
 | Charles Harris Wesley - 1997 - 338 pages
...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in the thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather... | |
 | Howard Jones - 1999 - 268 pages
...keep quiet" because the law protected the slave owner in his property. Indeed, Lincoln noted, he and "the great body of the Northern people do crucify...maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union."7 Lincoln abhorred slavery, but he just as clearly understood the constitutional legalities... | |
| |
