Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4F. D. Tandy Company, 1894 - Illinois |
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... carried out in good faith , and friend Lincoln had attained to senatorial dignity ac- cording to contract . They went into the con- test in every part of the State , calling upon all disappointed politicians to join in the crusade ...
... carried out in good faith , and friend Lincoln had attained to senatorial dignity ac- cording to contract . They went into the con- test in every part of the State , calling upon all disappointed politicians to join in the crusade ...
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... carried , and the others defeated , the same men who voted for them , with only two exceptions , voting soon after for Abraham Lin- coln as their candidate for the United States Senate . He came within one or two votes of being elected ...
... carried , and the others defeated , the same men who voted for them , with only two exceptions , voting soon after for Abraham Lin- coln as their candidate for the United States Senate . He came within one or two votes of being elected ...
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... carrying this State against the Democracy , on this plan : First , that they would all combine and elect Mr. Trumbull to Congress , and thereby carry his district for the legislature , in order to throw all the strength that could be ...
... carrying this State against the Democracy , on this plan : First , that they would all combine and elect Mr. Trumbull to Congress , and thereby carry his district for the legislature , in order to throw all the strength that could be ...
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... carried for the legislature , and , when it convened , the Abolitionists got all the officers of that body , and thus far the " bond " was fairly executed . The Whigs , on their part , demanded the election of Abraham Lincoln to the ...
... carried for the legislature , and , when it convened , the Abolitionists got all the officers of that body , and thus far the " bond " was fairly executed . The Whigs , on their part , demanded the election of Abraham Lincoln to the ...
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... carried on with ruth- less vengeance , until the one section or the other shall be driven to the wall , and become the vic- tim of the rapacity of the other . What good would follow such a system of warfare ? Sup- pose the North should ...
... carried on with ruth- less vengeance , until the one section or the other shall be driven to the wall , and become the vic- tim of the rapacity of the other . What good would follow such a system of warfare ? Sup- pose the North should ...
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Page 322 - 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 20 - 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 208 - I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a hundred times from every stump in Illinois, that in my opinion the people of a territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a state Constitution.
Page 287 - 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 221 - I believe, it was provided that it must be considered " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any State or territory, or to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their own domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 352 - 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 — 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...
Page 91 - 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; [Applause.] 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 58 - 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 286 - If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting and following such decision as a rule of political action?
Page 260 - I believe it was made by white men. for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever...