The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: The Lincoln-Douglas debates, IIG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 |
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... of the people of Kansas , when formed , for their free acceptance or rejec ... United States and the said State of Kansas . " Now , if it is said that this ... Senate , December 9 , 1857 : " I was present when that subject was discussed ...
... of the people of Kansas , when formed , for their free acceptance or rejec ... United States and the said State of Kansas . " Now , if it is said that this ... Senate , December 9 , 1857 : " I was present when that subject was discussed ...
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... of the constitution , shall be obligatory upon the United States and the said State of Kansas . " " The bill read in his place by the senator from Georgia on the 25th of June , and referred to the Com- mittee on Territories , contained ...
... of the constitution , shall be obligatory upon the United States and the said State of Kansas . " " The bill read in his place by the senator from Georgia on the 25th of June , and referred to the Com- mittee on Territories , contained ...
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... Senator Trumbull applied to me , his colleague , when I was two hundred miles off . Why did he not speak out as boldly in the Senate of the United States , and cram the lie down my throat when I denied the charge , first made by Bigler ...
... Senator Trumbull applied to me , his colleague , when I was two hundred miles off . Why did he not speak out as boldly in the Senate of the United States , and cram the lie down my throat when I denied the charge , first made by Bigler ...
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... United States Senate to - day solely because he and Trumbull can slander me . Has he given any other reason ? Has he avowed what he was desirous to do in Congress on any one question ? He desires to ride into office not upon his own ...
... United States Senate to - day solely because he and Trumbull can slander me . Has he given any other reason ? Has he avowed what he was desirous to do in Congress on any one question ? He desires to ride into office not upon his own ...
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... of the government down , and nobody dreamed that an effort would ever be made to ... Senate . It contained several things which I had voted against in committee ... United States . " Ta politics of the day . Are you going to Stephen A ...
... of the government down , and nobody dreamed that an effort would ever be made to ... Senate . It contained several things which I had voted against in committee ... United States . " Ta politics of the day . Are you going to Stephen A ...
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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?