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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... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
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... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty , is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation . That is what we have to do . How can we best do it ? There are those who denounce us openly to their ...
... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty , is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation . That is what we have to do . How can we best do it ? There are those who denounce us openly to their ...
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... Slave States as they chose , and that that principle should never be violated cither by fraud , by violence , by circumvention , or by any other means , if it was in my power to prevent it . I now submit to you , my fellow - citizens ...
... Slave States as they chose , and that that principle should never be violated cither by fraud , by violence , by circumvention , or by any other means , if it was in my power to prevent it . I now submit to you , my fellow - citizens ...
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... slave States — a war of extermination -- to be continued relentlessly until the one or the other shall be subdued , and all the States shall either become free or become slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly , that I take ...
... slave States — a war of extermination -- to be continued relentlessly until the one or the other shall be subdued , and all the States shall either become free or become slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly , that I take ...
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... slavery should not go into the new Territory , where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade , by which slaves are sup- plied , might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I ...
... slavery should not go into the new Territory , where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade , by which slaves are sup- plied , might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I ...
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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.