...ned. Again, if we take the Whig votes of the counties as shown by the late Presidential election as a basis, the thing is still worse. It seems to me ... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...berty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that ... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ...N. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President o... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...ing a sort of cau- cus of the Whig members, held in relation to the coming Presidential election. The whole field of the nation was scanned, and all i... ...t. He thought it altogether novel and un- precedented for a President or a Presidential candidate to 74 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two thi...

...e it bore but a sec- ondary rank among what were then considered the great States of the Confederacy. Massachusetts, proper and singly , then outnumbe... ...rk has none of this adventitious aid. Both of the Governments, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving... ...none of this adventitious aid. Both of the Governments, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving her no... ...nt provinces, and the Thames was crowded with shipping which be- longed to states that the emperor supposed to be under his control. As to the notion ... ... No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular State, but to the United States. The revenue paid into the treasury , at this point, comes in... ...he T er- ritories belong to the States, instead of the Gov- ernment of the United States; and the celebrated doctrine of the equilibrium, for which we... ...d most absolutely by the machinations of the designing. A hundred thousand electors, under the present system of cau- cuses and conventions, are just ... ...e when adopted, and which contained the seeds of its own ruin. Recourse to electors has become an idle form, ponderous and awkward, and in some of its... ...among civilized nations. We entertain very little doubt that the cost of a presidential election fully equals the ex- penditures of the empire of Grea...