...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in the thing which has, and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather...

...keep quiet" because the law protected the slave owner in his property. Indeed, Lincoln noted, he and "the great body of the Northern people do crucify...maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union."7 Lincoln abhorred slavery, but he just as clearly understood the constitutional legalities...

...still write that he along with "the great body of the Northern people do crucify their [antislavery] feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union," his views were already changing. In 1857 he repeated before several audiences his powerful affirmation...

...Basler, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), v. II, pp. 320-3, at 320. "It is hardly fair for you to assume, that I have no interest in...their loyalty to the constitution and the Union." radio - about the rescue of the innocent, we turn away from offering encouragement. Without surrendering...

...may begin at the end of a given time." Given this arrangement, Lincoln implored his Southern friends "to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern...maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union."9 The cash value of all this, in the tumultuous 1850s, was that Lincoln supported the protection...

...your slaves," and he wanted Speed to appreciate "how much the great body of the Northern people to crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union." Lincoln declared at the end of the LincolnDouglas debates, "I have neither assailed, nor wrestled with...

...of saint. (AL 1 15) Lincoln himself makes a similar point, in a letter to Joshua Speed: It is hardly (CW 2:320) III Lincoln had the democratic advantage of actually being, in one sense, a common man....

...continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...ought rather to appreciate how much the great body President Abraham Lincoln, 1864. Mathew Brady Collection. (National Archives and Records Administrationl...

...quiet," he said of himself; and of the Northern people, "You ought rather to appreciate how much [they] crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union." Where did he stand in the swirl of parties, Speed had asked? "I think I am a whig; but others say there...

...constitution, in regard to your slaves," even though "the great body of the Northern people" have to "crucify their feelings, in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union." In his great debates with Stephen A. Douglas during his run in 1858 for Illinois's Senate seat, Lincoln...