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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... against the holder , the United States courts will not decide , but will leave to be decided by the courts of any slave State the negro may be forced into by the master . This point is made , not to be 6 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
... against the holder , the United States courts will not decide , but will leave to be decided by the courts of any slave State the negro may be forced into by the master . This point is made , not to be 6 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
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... decide at an election which is fixed for the first Monday in August next . It is true that the mode of reference , and the form of the submission , was not such as I could sanction with my vote , for the reason that it discriminated ...
... decide at an election which is fixed for the first Monday in August next . It is true that the mode of reference , and the form of the submission , was not such as I could sanction with my vote , for the reason that it discriminated ...
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... decide for themselves has been submitted in its place . Fellow - citizens , while I devoted my best energies -all my energies , mental and physical - to the vindication of the great principle , and whilst the result has been such as ...
... decide for themselves has been submitted in its place . Fellow - citizens , while I devoted my best energies -all my energies , mental and physical - to the vindication of the great principle , and whilst the result has been such as ...
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... decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits . I have seen the time when that principle was controverted . I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have ...
... decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits . I have seen the time when that principle was controverted . I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have ...
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... decide the question for themselves , to have slavery or not , just as they chose ; and my opposition to the Lecompton Constitution was not predicated upon the ground that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would my action have ...
... decide the question for themselves , to have slavery or not , just as they chose ; and my opposition to the Lecompton Constitution was not predicated upon the ground that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would my action have ...
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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.