| Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...disapproved his celebrated declaration that the government could not endure half slave, half free. ' In the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he (the negro) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man" — was... | |
| Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread that she has earned with the sweat of her brow, she is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any man." Indeed, upon a sympathetic audience, already excited by the occasion, he could produce an... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the quotation... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason for making a statement like this recurred, I said : —... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of...else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the tqnal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, be is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, lie is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason for making a statement like this recurred, I said : " While... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of any body else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the oqual of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man" Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...but little, that little let him enjoy. In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of any body else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In his highest prosperity he never forgot his kindred with men. of low estate. Amid all the cares of... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. At Galesburg, October, 1858, he said : The Judge has alluded to the Declaration of Independence, and... | |
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