The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: The Lincoln-Douglas debates, IIG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 |
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... slave or a wife . So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes . I will add to this that I have never seen , to my knowledge , a man , woman , or child who was in favor of ...
... slave or a wife . So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes . I will add to this that I have never seen , to my knowledge , a man , woman , or child who was in favor of ...
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... slave States , under any circumstances , and says that they are willing to allow the people of each State , when it wants to come into the Union , to do just as it pleases on the question of slavery . In the north , you find Lovejoy ...
... slave States , under any circumstances , and says that they are willing to allow the people of each State , when it wants to come into the Union , to do just as it pleases on the question of slavery . In the north , you find Lovejoy ...
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... slave , is not a citizen , and cannot be . " I say that this government was established on the white basis . It was ... slaves or not , or whether or not he was born here . It does not depend upon the place a negro's parents were born ...
... slave , is not a citizen , and cannot be . " I say that this government was established on the white basis . It was ... slaves or not , or whether or not he was born here . It does not depend upon the place a negro's parents were born ...
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... slave States cannot endure permanently ; that they must either be all free or all slave ; all one thing or all the other . Why cannot this government endure divided into free and slave States , as our fathers made it ? When this ...
... slave States cannot endure permanently ; that they must either be all free or all slave ; all one thing or all the other . Why cannot this government endure divided into free and slave States , as our fathers made it ? When this ...
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... slave and half free . I have said so , and I did not say it without what seemed to me to be good reasons . It ... slavery question ? When are we to have peace upon it , if it is kept in the position it now occupies ? How are we ever to ...
... slave and half free . I have said so , and I did not say it without what seemed to me to be good reasons . It ... slavery question ? When are we to have peace upon it , if it is kept in the position it now occupies ? How are we ever to ...
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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?