Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4F. D. Tandy Company, 1894 - Illinois |
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... decision , or any other ever rendered by the Supreme Court . I am content to take that decision as it stands deliv- ered by the highest judicial tribunal on earth , a tribunal established by the Constitution of the United States for ...
... decision , or any other ever rendered by the Supreme Court . I am content to take that decision as it stands deliv- ered by the highest judicial tribunal on earth , a tribunal established by the Constitution of the United States for ...
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... decision , or a dif- ferent one . Having decided our own policy with reference to the black race , we must leave Kentucky and Missouri and every other State perfectly free to make just such a decision as they see proper on that question ...
... decision , or a dif- ferent one . Having decided our own policy with reference to the black race , we must leave Kentucky and Missouri and every other State perfectly free to make just such a decision as they see proper on that question ...
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... decision covers the whole question , and declares that each State has the right to settle this question of suffrage for itself , and all questions as to the relations between the white man and the negro . Judge Taney ex- pressly lays ...
... decision covers the whole question , and declares that each State has the right to settle this question of suffrage for itself , and all questions as to the relations between the white man and the negro . Judge Taney ex- pressly lays ...
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... for themselves , and that no power on earth ought to have interfered with that decision . In my opinion , the Lecompton constitution was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas , and 28 Stephen A. Douglas [ Sept. 15.
... for themselves , and that no power on earth ought to have interfered with that decision . In my opinion , the Lecompton constitution was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas , and 28 Stephen A. Douglas [ Sept. 15.
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... decision of the Supreme Court . I understand also that Judge Douglas adheres most firmly to that de- cision ; and the difficulty is , how is it possible for any power to exclude slavery from the Ter- ritory unless in violation of that ...
... decision of the Supreme Court . I understand also that Judge Douglas adheres most firmly to that de- cision ; and the difficulty is , how is it possible for any power to exclude slavery from the Ter- ritory unless in violation of that ...
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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...