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Excerpt from Great Debates in American History, Vol. 6 of 14: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) To the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913)
The trend of modern. Thought was definitely set against human slavery; but outside the American Union the idea of human freedom had gone no further than limited monarchy. Though he came to awaken the wild est passions of the time, the negro was but an incident - never a principal - to the final death-grapple between the North and the South.
N 0 man Of his time understood this so perfectly, em bodied it so adequately, as Abraham Lincoln. The primitive Abolitionists saw only one side of the shield, the original secessionists only the other side. Lincoln saw both sides. His political philosophy was expounded in four elaborate speeches: one delivered at Peoria, Illinois, the 16th of October, 1854; one at Springfield, Illinois, the l6th Of June, 1858; one at Columbus, Ohio, the l6th of September, 1859; and one at Cooper Insti tute, in New York City, the 27th of February, 1860. Of course he made many speeches and very good speeches, but these four, progressive in character, contain the sum and substance of his creed touching the organic char acter Of the Government, and at the same time express his personal and party view of contemporary affairs. They show him to have been an Old-line Whig of the school of Henry Clay, with strong emancipation lean ings; a thorough anti-slavery man, but never an extrem ist or an Abolitionist. ''to the last he hewed to the line thus laid down.
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The trend of modern. Thought was definitely set against human slavery; but outside the American Union the idea of human freedom had gone no further than limited monarchy. Though he came to awaken the wild est passions of the time, the negro was but an incident - never a principal - to the final death-grapple between the North and the South.
N 0 man Of his time understood this so perfectly, em bodied it so adequately, as Abraham Lincoln. The primitive Abolitionists saw only one side of the shield, the original secessionists only the other side. Lincoln saw both sides. His political philosophy was expounded in four elaborate speeches: one delivered at Peoria, Illinois, the 16th of October, 1854; one at Springfield, Illinois, the l6th Of June, 1858; one at Columbus, Ohio, the l6th of September, 1859; and one at Cooper Insti tute, in New York City, the 27th of February, 1860. Of course he made many speeches and very good speeches, but these four, progressive in character, contain the sum and substance of his creed touching the organic char acter Of the Government, and at the same time express his personal and party view of contemporary affairs. They show him to have been an Old-line Whig of the school of Henry Clay, with strong emancipation lean ings; a thorough anti-slavery man, but never an extrem ist or an Abolitionist. ''to the last he hewed to the line thus laid down.
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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.
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