The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858Text of the speeches from "Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas," Columbus, Ohio, 1860, with connecting narrative by the editor, and much illustrative material from contemporary newspapers, etc. |
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I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man . I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects , certainly not in color , perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment . But in the right to eat the bread ...
I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man . I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects , certainly not in color , perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment . But in the right to eat the bread ...
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Page 109 - 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 93 - 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 178 - 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 340 - 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 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...
Page 485 - 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 itself. It is the same spirit that says, " You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 102 - 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 485 - 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 itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 469 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 278 - And be it further enacted, That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby offered to the convention of the eastern state of the said territory, when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States.
Page 20 - All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post-offices, land-offices, marshalships and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance, ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
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| Title | The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library Core collection Volume 3 of Illinois State Historical Library. Collections Legal classics library Volume 1 of Lincoln series Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law U.S. presidential library |
| Authors | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas |
| Editors | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Edwin Erle Sparks |
| Contributor | Edwin Erle Sparks |
| Publisher | Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1908 |
| Length | 627 pages |
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