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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That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision , 66 squatter sovereignty " squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding - like the mould at the foundry ...
That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision , 66 squatter sovereignty " squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding - like the mould at the foundry ...
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Whenever , if ever , he and we can come together on principle so that our cause may have assistance from his reat ability , I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle . But clearly , he is not now with us he does not pretend to ...
Whenever , if ever , he and we can come together on principle so that our cause may have assistance from his reat ability , I hope to have interposed no adventitious obstacle . But clearly , he is not now with us he does not pretend to ...
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If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in free governments , it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental law , and to manage and regulate their own ...
If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in free governments , it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental law , and to manage and regulate their own ...
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rejoiced within my secret soul , for I saw an indication that the American people , when they come to understand the principle , would give it their cordial support . The Crittenden - Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an ...
rejoiced within my secret soul , for I saw an indication that the American people , when they come to understand the principle , would give it their cordial support . The Crittenden - Montgomery bill was as fair and as perfect an ...
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That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision , “ squatter sovereignty ” squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding — like the mould at the foundry ...
That principle is the only shred left of his original Nebraska doctrine . Under the Dred Scott decision , “ squatter sovereignty ” squatted out of existence , tumbled down like temporary scaffolding — like the mould at the foundry ...
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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 6 - 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.
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| Title | 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 ... Making of America |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Follett, Foster, 1860 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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