 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported In *' The New York Times," Senator Douglas said: 41 Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live,...discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of Democracy headed by... | |
 | Horace Greeley - History - 1860 - 250 pages
...speech, last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as in "The New York Times," Senator Douglas *• Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live,...discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of Democracy headed by... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas said: " Our fathers, when they framed the government under which •we...discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting-point for a discussion between [Republicans and that wing of the democracy headed... | |
 | Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas says : " ' Our fathers when they framed the Government under which we live,...adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it_because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans... | |
 | Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas says: " ' Our fathers when they framed the Government under which we live,...adopt it as' a text for this discourse. I so adopt it_because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Eepublicans... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas said : — "Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live,...this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. [Applause.] I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting-point for a discussion... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...'* Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood thin question juat as well, and even better than we do now." I fully...discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of Democracy headed by... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...York Times," Senator Douglas said: ** Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we Uve, understood this question just as well, and even better...as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because U furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography - 1860 - 232 pages
...sentiment expressed by Mr. Douglas in his Columbus speech, of the previous autumn, namely: "Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live,...question just as well, and even better, than we do now." The argument and its illustrations were masterly; the logic unanswerable. A few paragraphs of his concluding... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...in the Judge's speech here, a short sentence in these words : " Our fathers, when they formed this Government under which we live, understood this question just as well and even better than we do now." That is true ; I stick to that. I will stand by Judge Douglas in that to the bitter end. And now, Judge... | |
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when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now." I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it, because it furnishes a precise and agreed starting-point... 
