The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Together with Certain Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
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... blacks , for the individual as for the nation . He had himself , as a young man , been brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was anything in manual labour that ought to impair the respect of the ...
... blacks , for the individual as for the nation . He had himself , as a young man , been brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was anything in manual labour that ought to impair the respect of the ...
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... black , that all the citizens of the different States must have the same privileges or be governed by the same regulations , you have destroyed the greatest safeguard which our institu- tions have thrown around the rights of the citizen ...
... black , that all the citizens of the different States must have the same privileges or be governed by the same regulations , you have destroyed the greatest safeguard which our institu- tions have thrown around the rights of the citizen ...
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... Black Republicanism , -by the way , we are improving , the black has got rubbed off , -but with all that , if he be indorsed by Republican votes , where do you stand ? Plainly , you stand ready saddled , bridled , and harnessed , and ...
... Black Republicanism , -by the way , we are improving , the black has got rubbed off , -but with all that , if he be indorsed by Republican votes , where do you stand ? Plainly , you stand ready saddled , bridled , and harnessed , and ...
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... black men to marry all the black women ; and ir God's name let them be so married . The Judge re gales us with the terrible enormities that take place by the mixture of races ; that the inferior race bears the superior down . Why ...
... black men to marry all the black women ; and ir God's name let them be so married . The Judge re gales us with the terrible enormities that take place by the mixture of races ; that the inferior race bears the superior down . Why ...
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... black as night . When our friend Lincoln gets all his colored brethren around him here , he will then raise them to perfection as fast as possible , and place them on an equality with the white man , first removing all legal ...
... black as night . When our friend Lincoln gets all his colored brethren around him here , he will then raise them to perfection as fast as possible , and place them on an equality with the white man , first removing all legal ...
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