This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 183by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...us. This is a world of compensations ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for nati»nal independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, ami capacity, to introduce iuto... | |
| Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...us. This is a* world of compensations ; and he who would <be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...under a just God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson—to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...us. This is a world of compensations ; and he who would be no slave must consent to hat>& no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just Ood, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of... | |
| Literature - 1861 - 514 pages
...in course of ultimate extinction" — declares for negro suffrage, or negro equality — and that " those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for...themselves, and under a just God, cannot long retain it." (See Lincoln's let182 The Great Issue : Our Relations to it. 188 ter to the Boston Republicans in April,... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson ; to a man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for...capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary docnment an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to ' embalm it there, that... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...nation This is a world of compensations ; and he who would lie no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for...cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson ; to a man who, in the concrete pressure of I struggle for national independence by a single people, had... | |
| Charles Sumner - African Americans - 1865 - 64 pages
...subjugate us. "This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...God, cannot long retain it. " All honor to Jefferson — the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,... | |
| George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 148 pages
...nation This is a world of compensations ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for...and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "All honour to Jefferson ; to a man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...must consent to have no •hive. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; tnd, under a just God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson; to a man who, in the concrete pressure of * struggle for national independence by a single people, had... | |
| Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 168 pages
...slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for thenjselves ; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. " All honor to Jefferson — the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,... | |
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