Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... clause in the bill he brought forward , calling for and requiring a submission of the Kansas constitution to the people . I will tell you what the facts of the case were . I introduced a bill to author- ize the people of Kansas to form ...
... clause in the bill he brought forward , calling for and requiring a submission of the Kansas constitution to the people . I will tell you what the facts of the case were . I introduced a bill to author- ize the people of Kansas to form ...
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... clause re- quiring its constitution to be submitted to the people . The general rule made the law silent on the subject , taking it for granted that the people would demand and compel a popular vote on the ratification of their ...
... clause re- quiring its constitution to be submitted to the people . The general rule made the law silent on the subject , taking it for granted that the people would demand and compel a popular vote on the ratification of their ...
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... clause compell- ing the submission of the constitution to the people . Are Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Trumbull prepared to charge upon all those eminent men from the beginning of the government down to the present day , that the absence of a ...
... clause compell- ing the submission of the constitution to the people . Are Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Trumbull prepared to charge upon all those eminent men from the beginning of the government down to the present day , that the absence of a ...
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... clause requiring the constitution to be submitted to the people - is false . The printed copy of the bill which Mr. Lincoln held up before you , and which he pretends contains such a clause , merely contains a clause re- quiring a ...
... clause requiring the constitution to be submitted to the people - is false . The printed copy of the bill which Mr. Lincoln held up before you , and which he pretends contains such a clause , merely contains a clause re- quiring a ...
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... clause in the bill preventing its sub- mission to the people , and that I had it voted in as an amendment . Thus I convict him of falsehood and slander by quoting from him on the passage of the Toombs bill in the Senate of the United ...
... clause in the bill preventing its sub- mission to the people , and that I had it voted in as an amendment . Thus I convict him of falsehood and slander by quoting from him on the passage of the Toombs bill in the Senate of the United ...
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Page 110 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 111 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 89 - 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 225 - 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 201 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 65 - 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 155 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 108 - ... Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man ; this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position ; discarding our standard that we have left us.
Page 285 - A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and, with their capital, hire or buy another few to labor for them. A large majority belong to neither class -neither work for others, nor have others working for them.
Page 202 - 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 inter-marry with white people...