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" I believe it was made by white men. for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever... "
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln - Page 260
by Abraham Lincoln - 1894
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...ought to be a citizen. I believe that this Government of ours was founded, and wisely founded, upon the white basis. It was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity, to be executed and managed by white men. I freely concede that humanity requires us to extend all the...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 560 pages
...say here — what I have said over and over again at home — that, in my opinion, this government was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men, and by none other whatsoever. Mr. Doolillle. I will ask the honorable...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent,...
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - Church and state - 1863 - 230 pages
...the doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 236 pages
...the doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 224 pages
...the doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that "this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." International If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach. ......
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Citizenship, Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - Federal government - 1864 - 244 pages
...the doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international if States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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The Promises of the Declaration of Independence: Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln ...

Charles Sumner - African Americans - 1865 - 64 pages
...Independence, exclaimed as follows : — " I believe this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." The future President again took up the strain, as follows : — " Henry Clay once said of a class of...
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Nojoque: A Question for a Continent

Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1867 - 492 pages
...races living together on terms of social and political equality. — LINCOLN. I believe this Government was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever : and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men— men of European birth and descent, instead of...
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The Democratic Speaker's Hand-book ...

Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...Hegro Suffrage. Тни WHITE MAN'S PLATFORM. I hold that this Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others. I do not believe that the Almighty made the negro...
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