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... speech of Douglas at Freeport , widened , if they did not open , the breach between him and the southern Democrats ... speeches themselves are of a high order of debate , and of unusual import ; those of Douglas set forth his untenable ...
... speech of Douglas at Freeport , widened , if they did not open , the breach between him and the southern Democrats ... speeches themselves are of a high order of debate , and of unusual import ; those of Douglas set forth his untenable ...
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... speech they became so uproari- ous that he was obliged to desist . The plain truth is there were a great many there who were unwilling to hear him and manifested their disapprobation in a very noisy and disrespectful manner . We regret ...
... speech they became so uproari- ous that he was obliged to desist . The plain truth is there were a great many there who were unwilling to hear him and manifested their disapprobation in a very noisy and disrespectful manner . We regret ...
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... speech already described in this volume . The impression made upon me by the orator was quite overpowering . I had not heard much political speaking up to that time . I have heard a great deal since . I have never heard anything since ...
... speech already described in this volume . The impression made upon me by the orator was quite overpowering . I had not heard much political speaking up to that time . I have heard a great deal since . I have never heard anything since ...
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... speech yesterday , at the State House , in the Hall of Representatives in reply to the speech of Senator Douglas , of the preceding day . Mr. L. commenced at 2 o'clock , P. M. , and spoke above three hours , to a very large ...
... speech yesterday , at the State House , in the Hall of Representatives in reply to the speech of Senator Douglas , of the preceding day . Mr. L. commenced at 2 o'clock , P. M. , and spoke above three hours , to a very large ...
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... speech went unre- ported . In later years it was written out from memory by one of the hearers and became known as " Lincoln's lost speech , " being the subject of no little controversy . [ Illinois Journal , Springfield , June 3 , 1856 ] ...
... speech went unre- ported . In later years it was written out from memory by one of the hearers and became known as " Lincoln's lost speech , " being the subject of no little controversy . [ Illinois Journal , Springfield , June 3 , 1856 ] ...
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Page 109 - 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 178 - 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 225 - 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 401 - 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 342 - 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; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races...
Page 100 - I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ; enables the enemies of free institutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites...
Page 471 - 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 487 - 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. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, 'You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 102 - 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 401 - 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.