Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
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... adopted another resolution , in which they predicated . and declared the great principle which asserts the right of the people to make their own form of government and establish their own institutions . That resolution is as follows ...
... adopted another resolution , in which they predicated . and declared the great principle which asserts the right of the people to make their own form of government and establish their own institutions . That resolution is as follows ...
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... adopted with almost entire unanimity , to incorporate in that bill the great principle of self - government , declaring that it was " the true intent and meaning of the Act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory , or to ...
... adopted with almost entire unanimity , to incorporate in that bill the great principle of self - government , declaring that it was " the true intent and meaning of the Act not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory , or to ...
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... adopt , or whether they will adopt any at all ; you allow them to decide for themselves the relations between husband and wife , parent and child , guardian and ward , —in fact , you allow them to decide for themselves all other ...
... adopt , or whether they will adopt any at all ; you allow them to decide for themselves the relations between husband and wife , parent and child , guardian and ward , —in fact , you allow them to decide for themselves all other ...
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... adopted for ourselves . I deny the right of any other State to complain of our policy in that respect , or to interfere with it , or to attempt to change it . On the other hand , the State of Maine has decided that in that State a negro ...
... adopted for ourselves . I deny the right of any other State to complain of our policy in that respect , or to interfere with it , or to attempt to change it . On the other hand , the State of Maine has decided that in that State a negro ...
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... adopted in public speaking , of reading from docu- ments ; but I shall depart from that rule so far as to read a little scrap from his speech , which notices this first topic of which I shall speak , —that is , provided I can find it in ...
... adopted in public speaking , of reading from docu- ments ; but I shall depart from that rule so far as to read a little scrap from his speech , which notices this first topic of which I shall speak , —that is , provided I can find it in ...
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Page 24 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 241 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 105 - 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...
Page 254 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops...
Page 264 - I equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 279 - 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 282 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 241 - 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 245 - 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 112 - 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.