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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... answer the question in such way as to secure the approval of the voters of Illinois and that in so doing he would win the Senatorship . Lincoln's response was in substance : " That may be . I hold , however , that if Douglas answers ...
... answer the question in such way as to secure the approval of the voters of Illinois and that in so doing he would win the Senatorship . Lincoln's response was in substance : " That may be . I hold , however , that if Douglas answers ...
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... answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil , and hence should not be tolerated . You must allow the people to decide for themselves whether it is a good or an evil . You allow them to decide for themselves whether they ...
... answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil , and hence should not be tolerated . You must allow the people to decide for themselves whether it is a good or an evil . You allow them to decide for themselves whether they ...
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... answer is , that each State must decide for itself the nature and extent of these rights . Illinois has decided for herself . We have decided that the negro shall not be a slave , and we have at the same time decided that he shall not ...
... answer is , that each State must decide for itself the nature and extent of these rights . Illinois has decided for herself . We have decided that the negro shall not be a slave , and we have at the same time decided that he shall not ...
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... answer to this point , which I have been arguing , is , that he never did mean , and that I ought to know that he never intended to con- vey the idea , that he wished the " people of the free States to enter into the Southern States ...
... answer to this point , which I have been arguing , is , that he never did mean , and that I ought to know that he never intended to con- vey the idea , that he wished the " people of the free States to enter into the Southern States ...
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... answer is , that that is a question which each State and each Territory must decide for itself . We have decided that question . We have said that in this State the negro shall not be a slave , but that he shall enjoy no political ...
... answer is , that that is a question which each State and each Territory must decide for itself . We have decided that question . We have said that in this State the negro shall not be a slave , but that he shall enjoy no political ...
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Page 181 - 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 206 - 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 306 - 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 34 - 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 142 - 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 236 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 252 - 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.
Page 227 - 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 the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 142 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 113 - 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.