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old one, and have enough of the stuff left to make a little yellow dog. Speech in Congress, July 27, 1848, vol. II, p. 73.

STARVING BETWEEN STACKS OF HAY

We have all heard of the animal standing in doubt between two stacks of hay and starving to death. The like of that would never happen to General Cass. Place the stacks a thousand miles apart, he would stand stock-still midway between them, and eat them both at once, and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too.- -Speech in Congress,

July 27, 1848, vol. II, p. 83.

DIVIDED GANGS OF HOGS

I have heard some things from New York, and if they are true, one might well say of your party there, as a drunken fellow once said when he heard the reading of an indictment for hog-stealing. The clerk read on till he got to and through the words "did steal, take, and carry away ten boars, ten sows, ten shoats, and ten pigs," at which he exclaimed, "Well, by golly, that is the most equally divided gang of hogs I ever did hear of!" If there is any other gang of hogs more equally divided than the Democrats of New York are about this time, I have not heard of it.-Speech in Congress, July 27,

1848, vol. II, p. 88.

FIRST INVENTION A JOINT OPERATION

The very first invention was a joint operation, Eve having shared with Adam the getting up of the apron. And, indeed, judging from the fact that sewing has come down to our times as "woman's work" it is very probable she took the leading part,―he, perhaps, doing no more than to stand by and thread the needle. That proceeding may be reckoned as the mother of all "sewing societies" and the first and most perfect "World's Fair," all inventions and all inventors then in the world being on the spot. Lecture on Discoveries, Inventions and Improvements, Feb. 22, 1859, vol. V, p. 106.

LAST SHRIEK ON RETREAT

His idea was that it would be considered our last shriek on the retreat.- -Account of the Emancipation Proclamation, Feb. 6, 1864, vol. X, p. 2.

LAST OF OLD SERPENT'S TAIL

The last tip of the last joint of the old serpent's tail was just drawing out of view.- -Reply at Alton Debate, Oct. 15, 1858, vol. V, p. 46.

WHO SHOULD BE SLAVES

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those

who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. Address to Indiana Regiment, Mar. 17, 1865, vol. XI, p. 56.

EGYPT OF THE WEST

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the West without paying toll.

must have access to this Egypt of -Annual Message,

Dec. 1, 1862, vol. VIII, p. 115.

FREEDOM TO EVERY CREATURE

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Speech at Chicago, Ill., July 10, 1858, vol. III, p. 51.

TAKE HIS OWN MEDICINE

When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.Address to Indiana Regiment, Mar. 17, 1865, vol. XI, p. 56.

A DURABLE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

I think we have fairly entered upon a durable struggle as to whether this nation is to ultimately become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest, it is nothing if I shall have contributed, in the least degree, to the final restful result.Letter to H. D. Sharpe, Dec. 18, 1858, vol. V, p. 96.

LET HIM ENJOY WHAT GOD GAVE

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that

little let him enjoy.

-Speech at Springfield, Ill.,

July 17, 1858, vol. III, p. 186.

WRECKED NEGRO ON THE PLANK

If it was like two wrecked seamen on a narrow plank, where each must push the other off or drown r himself, I would push the negro off, or a white man either; but it is not: the plank is large enough for both. Speech at New Haven, Conn., Mar. 6, 1860, vol. V, p. 352.

TO KEEP THE JEWEL OF LIBERTY

They [negroes in Louisiana] would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.- -Letter to Governor Hahn, Mar. 13, 1864, vol. X, p. 39.

NEITHER SLAVE NOR WIFE

I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. Speech at Springfield, Ill., June 27, 1857,

vol. II, p. 329.

SMALL CURES FOR GREAT SORES

Our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question. They have constantly brought forward small cures for great soresplasters too small to cover the wound.- -Speech at New Haven, Conn., Mar. 6, 1860, vol. V, p. 343.

CHESTNUT HORSE ARGUMENT

Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. Reply at Ottawa Debate, Aug. 21, 1858, vol. III, p. 229.

SLAVERY FOUNDED IN SELFISHNESS

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-opposition to it in his love of justice.Speech at Peoria, Ill., Oct. 16, 1854, vol. II, p. 238.

SNAKE A JEWEL, WEN AN ORNAMENT

In front of us sat an old gentleman with an enormous wen upon his neck The wen repre

sents slavery upon the neck of this country.

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Those who think it right would consider the snake a jewel and the wen an ornament. -Speech at Hartford, Conn., Mar. 5, 1860, vol. V, p. 333.

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