Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, Etc. : Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party, and Published at the Times of Their Delivery |
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... equality with the white man . I am opposed to negro equality . I repeat that this nation is a white people - a people composed of European descendants - a people that have established this government for themselves and their posterity ...
... equality with the white man . I am opposed to negro equality . I repeat that this nation is a white people - a people composed of European descendants - a people that have established this government for themselves and their posterity ...
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... Equality among the States is a cardinal and fundamental principle in our Confederacy , and cannot be violated without overturning our system of Government . Hence I demanded that the free States and the slaveholding States should be ...
... Equality among the States is a cardinal and fundamental principle in our Confederacy , and cannot be violated without overturning our system of Government . Hence I demanded that the free States and the slaveholding States should be ...
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... equality by law , the effect of political amalgamation can be seen . Ask any of those gallant young men in your own county , who went to Mexico to fight the battles of their country , in what friend Lincoln considers an unjust and ...
... equality by law , the effect of political amalgamation can be seen . Ask any of those gallant young men in your own county , who went to Mexico to fight the battles of their country , in what friend Lincoln considers an unjust and ...
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... equality under the law , in order that he may approach as near perfection , or an equality with the white man , as possible . To this same end he quotes the Declaration of Independence in these words : " We hold these truths to be self ...
... equality under the law , in order that he may approach as near perfection , or an equality with the white man , as possible . To this same end he quotes the Declaration of Independence in these words : " We hold these truths to be self ...
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... equality of all men , every one of the thirteen colonies was a slaveholding colony , and every man who signed that Declaration represented a slaveholding constituency . Did they in- tend , when they put their signatures to that ...
... equality of all men , every one of the thirteen colonies was a slaveholding colony , and every man who signed that Declaration represented a slaveholding constituency . Did they in- tend , when they put their signatures to that ...
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Page 43 - 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 52 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 8 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Page 109 - 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 197 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 140 - 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 ; and 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.
Page 47 - When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly; and I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, -which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery, than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
Page 172 - 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 141 - 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.