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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... race . If it was not going to be possible to argue slavery out of existence , these men preferred to have the Union dissolved rather than to bring upon States like Massachusetts a share of the responsibility for the wrong done to ...
... race . If it was not going to be possible to argue slavery out of existence , these men preferred to have the Union dissolved rather than to bring upon States like Massachusetts a share of the responsibility for the wrong done to ...
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... race to a white man should be permitted to enjoy , and humanity requires that he should have , all the rights , privileges , and immunities which he is capa- ble of exercising consistent with the safety of so- ciety . I would give him ...
... race to a white man should be permitted to enjoy , and humanity requires that he should have , all the rights , privileges , and immunities which he is capa- ble of exercising consistent with the safety of so- ciety . I would give him ...
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... race . I do not acknowledge any of these doctrines of uniformity in the local and domestic regulations in the ... races . 3 Stephen A. Douglas 33.
... race . I do not acknowledge any of these doctrines of uniformity in the local and domestic regulations in the ... races . 3 Stephen A. Douglas 33.
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... races . I have seen the effects of this mixture of superior and inferior races , this amalga- mation of white men and Indians and negroes ; we have seen it in Mexico , in Central America , in South America , and in all the Spanish ...
... races . I have seen the effects of this mixture of superior and inferior races , this amalga- mation of white men and Indians and negroes ; we have seen it in Mexico , in Central America , in South America , and in all the Spanish ...
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... races ; that the inferior race bears the superior down . Why , Judge , if we do not let them get together in the Territories , they won't mix there . A voice : Three cheers for Lincoln . ( The cheers were given with a hearty good - will ...
... races ; that the inferior race bears the superior down . Why , Judge , if we do not let them get together in the Territories , they won't mix there . A voice : Three cheers for Lincoln . ( The cheers were given with a hearty good - will ...
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Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln admission adopted amendment answer believe Black Republican charge Chicago citizen clause Clay Compromise measures Congress Convention course of ultimate decide Declaration of Independence Democratic party deny doctrine domestic institutions Douglas's Dred Scott decision election evidence exclude slavery exist fact fathers favor forgery form a constitution friends Fugitive Slave law hold Illinois indorsed institution of slavery interrogatories Judge Trumbull Kansas Lecompton Constitution legislation Legislature Lincoln ment Missouri Missouri Compromise nation Nebraska Bill negro never North opinion opposed passed platform pledged political popular sovereignty President principle prohibit proposition provision race regard Republican party resolutions slaveholding slavery question South speech Springfield stand stitution stricken submitted suppose Supreme Court tell Territory thing tion to-day Toombs bill true Trumbull says Trumbull's ultimate extinction United States Senate vote Whig party wrong