Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4F. D. Tandy Company, 1894 - Illinois |
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... submitted to the people , should be followed in all future cases , and if he stands by that recommendation there will be no division in the Democratic party on that principle in the future . Hence the great mission of the Democracy is ...
... submitted to the people , should be followed in all future cases , and if he stands by that recommendation there will be no division in the Democratic party on that principle in the future . Hence the great mission of the Democracy is ...
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... submitted to the people, should be followed in all future cases, and if he stands by that recommendation there will be no division in the Democratic party on that principle in the future. Hence the great mission of the Democracy is to ...
... submitted to the people, should be followed in all future cases, and if he stands by that recommendation there will be no division in the Democratic party on that principle in the future. Hence the great mission of the Democracy is to ...
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... submitting the constitution to a vote of the peo- ple after it should be formed . He then brings forward evidence to show , and showing , as he deemed , that Judge Douglas reported the bill back to the Senate with that clause stricken ...
... submitting the constitution to a vote of the peo- ple after it should be formed . He then brings forward evidence to show , and showing , as he deemed , that Judge Douglas reported the bill back to the Senate with that clause stricken ...
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... submitted to a vote of the people , with the law silent upon the subject ; but it does not appear that they once had their enabling acts framed with an express provision for sub- mitting the constitution to be framed to a vote of the ...
... submitted to a vote of the people , with the law silent upon the subject ; but it does not appear that they once had their enabling acts framed with an express provision for sub- mitting the constitution to be framed to a vote of the ...
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... submitted , and put the two together , I think it will make a pretty fair show of proof that Judge Douglas did , as Trumbull says , enter into a plot to put in force a consti- tution for Kansas without giving the people any opportunity ...
... submitted , and put the two together , I think it will make a pretty fair show of proof that Judge Douglas did , as Trumbull says , enter into a plot to put in force a consti- tution for Kansas without giving the people any opportunity ...
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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...