Speeches and debates, 1856-1858Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 - Presidents |
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... Springfield , Ill . June 26 , 1857 Argument in the Rock Island Bridge Case . Extracts from a Report in the Daily ... Springfield , Ill . June 16 , 1858 The Law of Equal Freedom . Speech at Chi- cago , Ill . July 10 , 1858 The Conspiracy ...
... Springfield , Ill . June 26 , 1857 Argument in the Rock Island Bridge Case . Extracts from a Report in the Daily ... Springfield , Ill . June 16 , 1858 The Law of Equal Freedom . Speech at Chi- cago , Ill . July 10 , 1858 The Conspiracy ...
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... Springfield Speeches of June 16 and July 17 , 1858. Delivered at Beardstown , Ill . August 12 , 1858 " Back to the Declaration . " Speech at Lewiston , Ill . August 17 , 1858 . First Joint Debate , at Ottawa , Ill . August 21 , 1858 ...
... Springfield Speeches of June 16 and July 17 , 1858. Delivered at Beardstown , Ill . August 12 , 1858 " Back to the Declaration . " Speech at Lewiston , Ill . August 17 , 1858 . First Joint Debate , at Ottawa , Ill . August 21 , 1858 ...
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... SPRINGFIELD , ILL . JUNE 26 , 1857 . Fellow - citizens : I am here to - night , partly by the invitation of some of you , and partly by my own inclination . Two weeks ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the several subjects of Kansas , the ...
... SPRINGFIELD , ILL . JUNE 26 , 1857 . Fellow - citizens : I am here to - night , partly by the invitation of some of you , and partly by my own inclination . Two weeks ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the several subjects of Kansas , the ...
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... if they choose ? These questions , so far as I know , the judge never answers . It might involve the Democracy to answer them either way , and they go unanswered . Kansas . As to Kansas . The substance of the 18571 13 AT SPRINGFIELD.
... if they choose ? These questions , so far as I know , the judge never answers . It might involve the Democracy to answer them either way , and they go unanswered . Kansas . As to Kansas . The substance of the 18571 13 AT SPRINGFIELD.
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... genus Democrat . The Dred Scott Decision . And now as to the Dred Scott decision . That decision declares two propositions - first , that a negro cannot sue in the United States courts ; and 1857 ] . 15 AT SPRINGFIELD.
... genus Democrat . The Dred Scott Decision . And now as to the Dred Scott decision . That decision declares two propositions - first , that a negro cannot sue in the United States courts ; and 1857 ] . 15 AT SPRINGFIELD.
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Page 155 - 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 35 - 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 105 - 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 211 - 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 224 - You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time...
Page 287 - 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 which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 240 - 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 160 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 145 - 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 24 - 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.