...danger may be expected. " The question recurs, How shall we fortify against it? The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of 'seventysix did to the support of the constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his...

...Springfield, III. Jan. 27, 1837. THE question recurs, "How shall we fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of our seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution...

...danger may be expected. The question recurs, how shall we fortify against it? The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Eevolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate...

...intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs. REVERENCE FOR THE LAWS. (From the same address.) Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. * * * Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles...

...years has been sought after by more petitioning bodies than any other national fraternity.'' * * * Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. * * * Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles...

..."higher law," or the "unwritten law." "Let every American," he exclaimed in one of his earlier speeches, "every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his...and never to tolerate their violation by others." Indeed, he considers "the increasing disregard of the law which pervaded the country as something of...

...were illustrated by an address delivered at Springfield, in 1837, in which he exhorted his hearers never to violate, in the least particular, the laws...country and never to tolerate their violation by others. He believed that respe ct for the law should be inculcated among the people, and said "Let reverence...

...Illinois, June 17. 1858. ON RESPECTING THE LAW. [From an address to the young men of Springfield.] "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Eevolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate...

...danger must be expected. The question recurs, "How shall we fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, and so to the support of the Constitution...

...Lincoln, in one of his early public addresses, proposed to the young men of Springfield, Illinois : f " Let every American, every lover of liberty, every...country, and never to tolerate their violation by others."1 We must recognize the divine nature of law and its sacred sanctions ; we must make the Republic...