The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: The Lincoln-Douglas debates, IIG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 |
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... for veracity , he should hold him ( Lincoln ) responsible for the slanders . " I have done simply what I have told you , to subject me to this invitation to notice the charge . I now wish to say that it had 4 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
... for veracity , he should hold him ( Lincoln ) responsible for the slanders . " I have done simply what I have told you , to subject me to this invitation to notice the charge . I now wish to say that it had 4 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
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... wish of Judge Douglas to hold me responsible for it , then for once in my life I will play General Jackson , and to the just extent I take the responsibility . I wish to say at the beginning that I will hand to the reporters that ...
... wish of Judge Douglas to hold me responsible for it , then for once in my life I will play General Jackson , and to the just extent I take the responsibility . I wish to say at the beginning that I will hand to the reporters that ...
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... wish you to bear in mind that up to the time of the introduction of the Toombs bill , and after its introduction , there had never been an Act of Con- gress for the admission of a new State which contained a clause requiring its ...
... wish you to bear in mind that up to the time of the introduction of the Toombs bill , and after its introduction , there had never been an Act of Con- gress for the admission of a new State which contained a clause requiring its ...
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... wish to say this in reference to the matter : Mr. Lincoln and myself are just as good personal friends as Judge Douglas and myself . In reference to this Mexican War , my re- collection is that when Ashmun's resolution [ amend- ment ] ...
... wish to say this in reference to the matter : Mr. Lincoln and myself are just as good personal friends as Judge Douglas and myself . In reference to this Mexican War , my re- collection is that when Ashmun's resolution [ amend- ment ] ...
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... wishes of its inhab- itants , and of course I was unwilling to turn our guns from the common enemy to strike down an ally . Judge Douglas , however , on the same day , and in the same debate , probably recollecting , or being reminded ...
... wishes of its inhab- itants , and of course I was unwilling to turn our guns from the common enemy to strike down an ally . Judge Douglas , however , on the same day , and in the same debate , probably recollecting , or being reminded ...
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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?