Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 |
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... Whig presidents and the Democratic presidents from the beginning of the government down , and no- body dreamed that an effort would ever be made to abuse the power thus confided to the people of a Territory . For this reason our ...
... Whig presidents and the Democratic presidents from the beginning of the government down , and no- body dreamed that an effort would ever be made to abuse the power thus confided to the people of a Territory . For this reason our ...
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... Whig president , as well as every Democratic president , and against Henry Clay , who , in the Senate or House , for forty years advocated bills similar to the one I reported , no one of them containing a clause compell- ing the ...
... Whig president , as well as every Democratic president , and against Henry Clay , who , in the Senate or House , for forty years advocated bills similar to the one I reported , no one of them containing a clause compell- ing the ...
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... Whig within the hearing of my voice to bear testimony that during all that period I fought you Whigs like a man on every question that separated the two parties . I had the highest respect for Henry Clay as a gallant party - leader , as ...
... Whig within the hearing of my voice to bear testimony that during all that period I fought you Whigs like a man on every question that separated the two parties . I had the highest respect for Henry Clay as a gallant party - leader , as ...
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... Whigs and Democrats then differed now remains to divide the two great parties ? Every one of those questions which divided Whigs and Demo- crats has passed away ; the country has outgrown them ; they have passed into history . Hence it ...
... Whigs and Democrats then differed now remains to divide the two great parties ? Every one of those questions which divided Whigs and Demo- crats has passed away ; the country has outgrown them ; they have passed into history . Hence it ...
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... Whig within the hearing of my voice , if I have not truly stated the issues as they then presented themselves to the ... Whigs both who sup- ported those compromise measures of 1850. When I returned home to Chicago , I found the citizens ...
... Whig within the hearing of my voice , if I have not truly stated the issues as they then presented themselves to the ... Whigs both who sup- ported those compromise measures of 1850. When I returned home to Chicago , I found the citizens ...
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Page 111 - 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 89 - 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 225 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 201 - 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.
Page 65 - 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.
Page 155 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 285 - A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and, with their capital, hire or buy another few to labor for them. A large majority belong to neither class -neither work for others, nor have others working for them.
Page 202 - 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 inter-marry with white people...
Page 286 - Again, as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages...
Page 87 - I will say then that 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...