Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery |
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... pledged myself to you on every stump in Illinois in 1854 , I pledged myself to the people of other States , North and South - wherever I spoke and in the United States Senate and elsewhere , in every form in which I could reach the ...
... pledged myself to you on every stump in Illinois in 1854 , I pledged myself to the people of other States , North and South - wherever I spoke and in the United States Senate and elsewhere , in every form in which I could reach the ...
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... pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for ? Can Judge Douglas find any body on earth that said that any body else should form a Constitu- tion for a people ? [ A voice , " Yes . " ] Well , I should like you to name ...
... pledge himself to fight all the remaining years of his life for ? Can Judge Douglas find any body on earth that said that any body else should form a Constitu- tion for a people ? [ A voice , " Yes . " ] Well , I should like you to name ...
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... pledge was distinctly made that the people of Kansas should be left not only free , but perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions to suit themselves ; and the question arose , when the Lecompton Constitution ...
... pledge was distinctly made that the people of Kansas should be left not only free , but perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions to suit themselves ; and the question arose , when the Lecompton Constitution ...
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... pledge , that the people of Kansas should be left perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions to suit themselves . And yet , while no man can arise in any crowd and deny that I have been faithful to my principles , and ...
... pledge , that the people of Kansas should be left perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions to suit themselves . And yet , while no man can arise in any crowd and deny that I have been faithful to my principles , and ...
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... redeemed in good faith every pledge I have made to you ? Then , my friends , the question recurs , whether I shall be sustained or rejected ? If you are of opinion that Mr. Lincoln will advance the interests of Illinois better than I 28.
... redeemed in good faith every pledge I have made to you ? Then , my friends , the question recurs , whether I shall be sustained or rejected ? If you are of opinion that Mr. Lincoln will advance the interests of Illinois better than I 28.
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Page 1 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 79 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 228 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 241 - I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes.
Page 250 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 136 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that 1 am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Page 48 - The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Page 193 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people ; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 225 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 194 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.