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... his message of July 4 , 1861 , he stated his pur- pose in these words : " I desire to preserve the Government that it may be administered for all , as it was administered by the men who made it . On the side of the xiv Abraham Lincoln.
... his message of July 4 , 1861 , he stated his pur- pose in these words : " I desire to preserve the Government that it may be administered for all , as it was administered by the men who made it . On the side of the xiv Abraham Lincoln.
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... desire slavery , let them have it . If they do not want it , let them prohibit it . It is their business , not mine . It is none of our business in Illinois . whether Kansas is a free State or a slave State . It is none of your business ...
... desire slavery , let them have it . If they do not want it , let them prohibit it . It is their business , not mine . It is none of our business in Illinois . whether Kansas is a free State or a slave State . It is none of your business ...
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Abraham Lincoln. men , insist on putting a slave constitution on a people who desire a free State ? Your safety and ours depend upon both of us acting in good faith , and living up to that great principle which asserts the right of every ...
Abraham Lincoln. men , insist on putting a slave constitution on a people who desire a free State ? Your safety and ours depend upon both of us acting in good faith , and living up to that great principle which asserts the right of every ...
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... desire admission as a free State , then they should be kept out until they had 93,420 inhabitants . I then said , and I now repeat to you , that whenever Kansas has people enough for a slave State she has people enough for a free State ...
... desire admission as a free State , then they should be kept out until they had 93,420 inhabitants . I then said , and I now repeat to you , that whenever Kansas has people enough for a slave State she has people enough for a free State ...
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... desire to place myself , in connection with Mr. Clay , as nearly right before this people as may be . I am quite ... desires to place me in an extremely Abolition attitude . He read upon a former oc- casion , and alludes without reading ...
... desire to place myself , in connection with Mr. Clay , as nearly right before this people as may be . I am quite ... desires to place me in an extremely Abolition attitude . He read upon a former oc- casion , and alludes without reading ...
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Page 45 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 174 - 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 142 - 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 180 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 144 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Page 294 - ... understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
Page 35 - 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 364 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Page 144 - 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 287 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.