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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery., Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield June 17, 1858. (search)
Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield June 17, 1858. The following speech was delivered at Springfield, Ill., at the close of the Republican State Convention held at that time and place, and by which Convention Mr. Lincoln had been named as their candidate for U. S. Senator. Mr. Douglas was not present. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolv
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xxi. The Presidential canvass of 1860. (search)
the seat he had so ably filled. But it was hardly in human nature that those thus appealed to should, because of one good act, recognize and treat as a friend one whom they had known for nearly twenty years as the ablest, most indefatigable, and by no means the most scrupulous, of their adversaries. They held a sort of State Convention, therefore, and presented Abraham Lincoln as a Republican competitor for Mr. Douglas's seat; and he opened the canvass at once, At Springfield, Ill., June 17, 1858. in a terse, forcible, and thoroughly radical speech, wherein he enunciated the then startling, if not absolutely novel, doctrine that the Union cannot permanently endure half Slave and half Free. Said Mr. Lincoln: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to Slavery agitation. Under
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 15: the Personal Liberty Law.—1855. (search)
agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. 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. It will become all one thing or all the other (Speech of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Ill., June 17, 1858, upon being made Republican candidate for the Senate of the United States. Arnold's Lincoln and slavery, p. 114). Now, it fell on deaf ears. Worthy of mention is the speech which accompanied the Lib. 25.82. above resolutions—logical and orderly, and fortified at every step with documentary evidence. On August 1, near Jamaica, Long Island, Mr. Garrison spoke again, at the celebration of the day by the New York City Nat. A. S. Standard, Aug. 11, 1855, p. 2. AntiSlavery Society. A <
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
of Sandwich Islands, visited Boston, Jan., 1875 Kine-pox inoculation introduced by Dr. Boylston, May 21, 1721 Kissing a fineable offence in Boston (if caught), 1698 A merry pastime in New England, 1880 Knapp, Elder sensational preacher, at Boston, Jan., 1842 Kossuth, Louis lecturing and selling Hungarian Bonds, at Faueuil Hall, Apr. 29, 1852 Kneeland, Abner sent to jail as a Free-thinker, June 13, 1838 Knights Templars of Virginia, visited Boston, June 17, 1858 Of Boston, visited Richmond, Va., May 13, 1859 Knox, Gen. Henry Likeness placed in Faneuil Hall, May 3, 1831 Kremlin A building on Sudbury street, being removed, May, 1847 L. Lafayette, Marquis visited Boston, Apr. 28, 1780 Again visited Boston, Oct. 18, 1784 Reception at Boston, Aug. 25, 1824 Lager Beer Saloon sensation began, April, 1855 Lamps Street. Oil provided by subscription, 1773 Oil first put in use in town, Mar. 31, 1774 Gas. One
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs at the Southern Capital. (search)
The Dred Scott decides that they have not that power."--[Abraham Lancoln. "This Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind should rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its own advocates push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in the states old as well as new, North as well as South."--[Lincoln's Spring field Speech, June 17th, 1858. Lincoln forgets, too, that his Premier, Mr. Seward, is the preacher of an "irrepressible conflict" with Southern institutions, and that another eminent Black Republican, whom he has chosen as one of his constitutional advisers--Mr. Chase--has publicly avowed himself in "favor of freedom throughout the country's wide domain." Reverse this case, and, as the New York Express says, imagine — if you can-- a Southern party coming into power, with eighty millions of patronage, insisting