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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... expression of your devotion to that great principle of self - government , to which my life for many years past has been , and in the future will be , devoted . If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in ...
... expression of your devotion to that great principle of self - government , to which my life for many years past has been , and in the future will be , devoted . If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in ...
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... expressed at my course in supporting those measures . I appeared before the people of Chicago at a mass meeting , and vindicated each and every one of those measures ; and by reference to my speech on that occasion , which was printed ...
... expressed at my course in supporting those measures . I appeared before the people of Chicago at a mass meeting , and vindicated each and every one of those measures ; and by reference to my speech on that occasion , which was printed ...
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... expression of public opinion - enlightened , educated , intelligent public opinion on this question , by the representatives of Illinois in 1851 , approaches nearer to unanimity than has ever been obtained on any controverted question ...
... expression of public opinion - enlightened , educated , intelligent public opinion on this question , by the representatives of Illinois in 1851 , approaches nearer to unanimity than has ever been obtained on any controverted question ...
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... expressed heretofore , and I now repeat , my opposi- tion to the Dred Scott decision ; but I should be allowed to state the nature of that opposition , and I ask your indulgence while I do so . What is fairly implied by the term Judge ...
... expressed heretofore , and I now repeat , my opposi- tion to the Dred Scott decision ; but I should be allowed to state the nature of that opposition , and I ask your indulgence while I do so . What is fairly implied by the term Judge ...
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... expressed toward me , is but a feeble expression of the feelings of my heart . I appear before you this evening for the purpose of vindi- cating the course which I have felt it my duty to pursue in the Senate of the United States upon ...
... expressed toward me , is but a feeble expression of the feelings of my heart . I appear before you this evening for the purpose of vindi- cating the course which I have felt it my duty to pursue in the Senate of the United States upon ...
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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.