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... tution down the throats of an unwilling people , against their consent , you will subvert the great fundamental principle upon which all our free institutions rest . In the future I have no fear that the attempt will ever be made ...
... tution down the throats of an unwilling people , against their consent , you will subvert the great fundamental principle upon which all our free institutions rest . In the future I have no fear that the attempt will ever be made ...
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... tution , and with good faith to our sister States ; that these principles were recognized by the ordinance of 1787 , which received the sanction of Thomas Jeffer- son , who is acknowledged by all to be the great oracle and expounder of ...
... tution , and with good faith to our sister States ; that these principles were recognized by the ordinance of 1787 , which received the sanction of Thomas Jeffer- son , who is acknowledged by all to be the great oracle and expounder of ...
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... tution for Kansas without giving the people any opportunity of voting upon it . But I must hurry on . The next proposition that Judge Douglas puts is this : " But upon ex- amination it turns out that the Toombs bill never did contain a ...
... tution for Kansas without giving the people any opportunity of voting upon it . But I must hurry on . The next proposition that Judge Douglas puts is this : " But upon ex- amination it turns out that the Toombs bill never did contain a ...
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... but I say , Judge Douglas , it was not silent when you got it . It was vocal with the declaration when you got it , for a submission of the consti- tution to the people . And now , my direct 1858 ] 113 Speech at Charleston.
... but I say , Judge Douglas , it was not silent when you got it . It was vocal with the declaration when you got it , for a submission of the consti- tution to the people . And now , my direct 1858 ] 113 Speech at Charleston.
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Abraham Lincoln John George Nicolay, John Hay. tution to the people . And now , my direct question to Judge Douglas is to answer why , if he deemed the bill silent on this point , he found it necessary to strike out those particular harm ...
Abraham Lincoln John George Nicolay, John Hay. tution to the people . And now , my direct question to Judge Douglas is to answer why , if he deemed the bill silent on this point , he found it necessary to strike out those particular harm ...
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Page 318 - 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.
Page 18 - 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 204 - I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state Constitution.
Page 283 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 217 - I believe, it was provided that it must be considered " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 348 - I will say then that 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...
Page 89 - 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; [Applause.] 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 56 - 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 - If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting and following such decision as a rule of political action?
Page 318 - 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.