The othersiders alcatraz prison

The othersiders alcatraz prison

March 15, 1865 Letter to Thurlow Weed Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT. May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands. May 21, 1860 Letter to Joshua Giddings I am not at liberty to shift ground that is out of the question. If I thought a repetition would do any good I would make it. But my judgment is it would do positive harm. The secessionists, per se believing they had alarmed me, would clamor all the louder. November 16, 1860 Letter to Nathaniel Paschall I fully appreciate the present peril the country is in, and the weight of responsibility on me. December 22, 1860 Letter to Alexander Stephens I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be preserved to the latest generation? February 11, 1861 Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis I am a patient man always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible. July 17, 1862 Letter to Reverdy Johnson Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. I have understood well that the duty of self-preservation rests solely with the American people. January 19, 1863 Letter to the Workingmen of England My purpose is to be, in my action, just and constitutional; and yet practical, in performing the important duty, with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity, and the free principles of our common country. August 7, 1863 Letter to Horatio Seymour I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation. Slavery is founded in the selfishness of mans nature opposition to it is in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise repeal all compromises repeal the declaration of independence repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of mans heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. October 16, 1854 Speech at Peoria The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious the othersiders alcatraz prison detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes. I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political October 7, 1858 Debate at Galesburg, Illinois He Stephen Douglas is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national. October 7, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Galesburg, Illinois When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong. October 13, 1858 Debate at Quincy, Illinois This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object. September 16, 1859 Speech in Columbus, Ohio An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a the othersiders alcatraz prison in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it. We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself. September 17, 1859 Speech in Cincinnati, Ohio Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery.