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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... regard- less of the wishes of the people to be affected by it ; and when I found upon the Crittenden - Montgomery bill the Republicans and Americans of the North , and I may say , too , some glorious Americans and old - line Whigs from ...
... regard- less of the wishes of the people to be affected by it ; and when I found upon the Crittenden - Montgomery bill the Republicans and Americans of the North , and I may say , too , some glorious Americans and old - line Whigs from ...
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... regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them . When that election was over , and the Legislature assem- bled , they proceeded to consider the merits of those Compromise measures , and the principles upon which they were ...
... regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them . When that election was over , and the Legislature assem- bled , they proceeded to consider the merits of those Compromise measures , and the principles upon which they were ...
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... regard him as a kind , amiable , and intelligent gentleman , a good citizen and an honorable opponent ; and whatever issue I may haye with him will be of principle , and not involving personalities . Mr. Lincoln made a speech before ...
... regard him as a kind , amiable , and intelligent gentleman , a good citizen and an honorable opponent ; and whatever issue I may haye with him will be of principle , and not involving personalities . Mr. Lincoln made a speech before ...
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... regard to which the question had been settled ; it was brought forward at a time when nobody asked him ; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it , but when they could not well refuse it ; and for this same ...
... regard to which the question had been settled ; it was brought forward at a time when nobody asked him ; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it , but when they could not well refuse it ; and for this same ...
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... regard to his sup- port of it , when he declares the last years of his life have been , and all the future years of his life shall be , devoted to this matter of popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the peo ...
... regard to his sup- port of it , when he declares the last years of his life have been , and all the future years of his life shall be , devoted to this matter of popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the peo ...
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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.