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... understand the tremendous advantages of a humble birth , when we realize that the privations of youth are the pillars of strength to maturer years , then we shall cease to wonder that out of such obscure surroundings as watched the ...
... understand the tremendous advantages of a humble birth , when we realize that the privations of youth are the pillars of strength to maturer years , then we shall cease to wonder that out of such obscure surroundings as watched the ...
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... the Fee- jee , the Malay , or any other inferior and de- graded race , when they spoke of the equality of men . One great evidence that such was their understanding , is to be found in the fact that 1858 ] 23 Speech at Jonesboro.
... the Fee- jee , the Malay , or any other inferior and de- graded race , when they spoke of the equality of men . One great evidence that such was their understanding , is to be found in the fact that 1858 ] 23 Speech at Jonesboro.
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... the good of society . When you ask me what hese rights are , what their nature and extent is , I tell you that that is a question which each State of this I 24 Stephen A. Douglas [ Sept. 15 understanding, is to be found in the fact that ...
... the good of society . When you ask me what hese rights are , what their nature and extent is , I tell you that that is a question which each State of this I 24 Stephen A. Douglas [ Sept. 15 understanding, is to be found in the fact that ...
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... understand that part of the history of the coun- try as stated by him to be correct . I recollect that I , as a member of that party , acquiesced in that compromise . I recollect in the presiden- tial election which followed , when we ...
... understand that part of the history of the coun- try as stated by him to be correct . I recollect that I , as a member of that party , acquiesced in that compromise . I recollect in the presiden- tial election which followed , when we ...
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... understand that it is a maxim of law , that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declara- tion . I think that the opinions the judge brings from those who support me , yet differ from me , are a bad declaration against me , but if I ...
... understand that it is a maxim of law , that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declara- tion . I think that the opinions the judge brings from those who support me , yet differ from me , are a bad declaration against me , but if I ...
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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...