Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... stitution formed and put in force without giving the people any opportunity to pass upon it . This , my friends , is a serious charge , but I charge it to - night that the very men who traverse the country under banners proclaiming pop ...
... stitution formed and put in force without giving the people any opportunity to pass upon it . This , my friends , is a serious charge , but I charge it to - night that the very men who traverse the country under banners proclaiming pop ...
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... stitution , they could have done so with 35,000 people , but if they insisted on being a free State , as they had a right to do , then they were to be punished by being kept out of the Union until they had nearly three times that ...
... stitution , they could have done so with 35,000 people , but if they insisted on being a free State , as they had a right to do , then they were to be punished by being kept out of the Union until they had nearly three times that ...
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... stitution ; and secondly , in resisting the English bill . I repeat that I opposed the Lecompton constitution because it was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas , and did not embody their will . I denied the right of any power ...
... stitution ; and secondly , in resisting the English bill . I repeat that I opposed the Lecompton constitution because it was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas , and did not embody their will . I denied the right of any power ...
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... be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution - durable as the Con- stitution , and part of the Constitution . Now , re- membering the provision of the Constitution which I have read 1858 ] 67 AT GALESBURG.
... be separated from the Constitution without breaking the Constitution - durable as the Con- stitution , and part of the Constitution . Now , re- membering the provision of the Constitution which I have read 1858 ] 67 AT GALESBURG.
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... stitution has created that court to decide all constitu- tional questions in the last resort , and when such decisions have been made they become the law of the land , and you , and he , and myself , and every other good citizen are ...
... stitution has created that court to decide all constitu- tional questions in the last resort , and when such decisions have been made they become the law of the land , and you , and he , and myself , and every other good citizen are ...
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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...