The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: The Lincoln-Douglas debates, IIG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 |
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... Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois ; including the preceding speeches of each at Chicago , Springfield , etc. Part II CONTENTS FOURTH JOINT DEBATE , AT CHARLESTON , SEPTEMBER 18.
... Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois ; including the preceding speeches of each at Chicago , Springfield , etc. Part II CONTENTS FOURTH JOINT DEBATE , AT CHARLESTON , SEPTEMBER 18.
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... Chicago , in which he made what may be called a charge against Judge Douglas , which I understand proved to be very offensive to him . The Judge was at that time out upon one of his speaking tours through the country , and when the news ...
... Chicago , in which he made what may be called a charge against Judge Douglas , which I understand proved to be very offensive to him . The Judge was at that time out upon one of his speaking tours through the country , and when the news ...
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... Chicago he made his charge to rest upon the fact that the bill had the provision in it for submitting the constitution to a vote of the people when it went into his ( Judge Douglas's ) hands , that it was missing when he reported it to ...
... Chicago he made his charge to rest upon the fact that the bill had the provision in it for submitting the constitution to a vote of the people when it went into his ( Judge Douglas's ) hands , that it was missing when he reported it to ...
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... Chicago was to make a speech wholly devoted to assaults upon my public character and public action . Up to that time I had never alluded to his course in Congress , or to him directly or indirectly , and hence his assaults upon me were ...
... Chicago was to make a speech wholly devoted to assaults upon my public character and public action . Up to that time I had never alluded to his course in Congress , or to him directly or indirectly , and hence his assaults upon me were ...
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... Chicago . Let us see . The Chicago Times took up Trumbull's Chicago speech , compared it with the official records of Congress , and proved that speech to be false in its charge that the original Toombs Stephen A. Douglas 31.
... Chicago . Let us see . The Chicago Times took up Trumbull's Chicago speech , compared it with the official records of Congress , and proved that speech to be false in its charge that the original Toombs Stephen A. Douglas 31.
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Page 181 - 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...
Page 155 - 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 265 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time ; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 240 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 155 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 126 - 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 179 - 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 153 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Page 205 - Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?