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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... thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it . The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself , whether a thing is right or wrong , whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; and ...
... thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it . The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself , whether a thing is right or wrong , whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; and ...
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... thing , I protest that I neither know any thing of it , nor do I believe it . I will , however , say - as I think this branch of the argument is lugged in - I would before I leave it , state , for the benefit of those concerned , that ...
... thing , I protest that I neither know any thing of it , nor do I believe it . I will , however , say - as I think this branch of the argument is lugged in - I would before I leave it , state , for the benefit of those concerned , that ...
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... thing as Squatter Sovereignty ; but that any one man may take slaves into a Terri- tory , and all the other men in the Territory may be opposed to it , and yet by reasou of the Constitution they cannot prohibit it . When that is so ...
... thing as Squatter Sovereignty ; but that any one man may take slaves into a Terri- tory , and all the other men in the Territory may be opposed to it , and yet by reasou of the Constitution they cannot prohibit it . When that is so ...
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... thing must be for the Democrats ! They did every thing , and the five to the one that really did the thing , they snub over , and they do not seem to remember that they have an existence upon the face of the earth . Gentlemen , I fear ...
... thing must be for the Democrats ! They did every thing , and the five to the one that really did the thing , they snub over , and they do not seem to remember that they have an existence upon the face of the earth . Gentlemen , I fear ...
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... thing , and I believe that no fair mind can infer any such thing from anything I have ever said . Now in relation to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation of all the local institutions of the various States . I ...
... thing , and I believe that no fair mind can infer any such thing from anything I have ever said . Now in relation to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation of all the local institutions of the various States . I ...
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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.