 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...disapproved his celebrated declaration that the government could not endure half slave, half free. ' In the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he (the negro) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man" — was... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread that she has earned with the sweat of her brow, she is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any man." Indeed, upon a sympathetic audience, already excited by the occasion, he could produce an... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of any body else, which his own hand earns,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...equal in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of any body else which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Tnfl^ Doifff-k*68) and the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...but little, that little let him enjoy. In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of any body else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In his highest prosperity he never forgot his kindred with men. of low estate. Amid all the cares of... | |
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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. 
