free-States

Face to face with, this danger, the adherents of Lincoln, of Douglas, of Bell, and the fraction of the President's own partisans in the free-States would be compelled to postpone their discords and as one man follow the constitutional ruler in a constitutional defense of the laws, the flag, and the territory of the Union.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Rights sanctioned for twenty-eight years ought not and cannot be repudiated, with any semblance of justice, by one or two decisions, influenced, as declared, by a determination to counteract the excitement against slavery in the free-States ....

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Political victory at the ballot-box or a transformation of the institutions of government was the immediate alternative before the free-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

She did not need an amendment of the fugitive-slave act, or a repeal of personal liberty bills, but a change in the public sentiment of the free-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

On the other hand, Lord Stowell's doctrine was similarly enlarged and strengthened so as to allow the master right of transit and temporary sojourn in free-States and Territories without suspension or forfeiture of his authority over his slave.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

But the most impressive, as well as the most valuable, feature of Lincoln's address was its concluding portion, where, in advice directed especially to Republicans, he pointed out in dispassionate but earnest language that the real, underlying conflict was in the difference of moral conviction between the sections as to the inherent right or wrong of slavery, and in view of which he defined the proper duty of the free-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Amid this conflict of argument, public opinion in the free-States gravitated to neither extreme.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

As Mr. Butler, who represented Massachusetts on the platform committee, had submitted a separate report, Mr. Payne seems not to have included her in his total of free-States, though he does appear to have included her electoral vote in his estimate.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Right to hold slaves in transit through free-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Vice-President both from the free-States it will dissolve the

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890