 I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery.  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3031865Full view - About this book
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. . . . And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 336 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the 15 moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed 20... | |
 | Charles Lester Barstow - United States - 1912 - 240 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1913 - 246 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. . . . And I aver that to this day I have done no official...my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution imposed upon me the duty to preserve,... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - 1913 - 114 pages
...the wrong of slavery, he says, but — " I understood that in ordinary civil administration my oath forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. . . . And I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...the wrong of slavery, he says, but — "I understood that in ordinary civil administration my oath forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. . . . And I aver that to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...done no official act in mere deference to my abstract feeling and judgment on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...the oath in using the power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administratici this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract...slavery. I had publicly declared this many times, and in man? ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract... | |
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