Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... vote on the ratification of their constitution . Such was the general rule under Wash- ington , Jefferson , Madison ... voted against in committee , but had been overruled by a majority of the members , and it was my duty as chairman of ...
... vote on the ratification of their constitution . Such was the general rule under Wash- ington , Jefferson , Madison ... voted against in committee , but had been overruled by a majority of the members , and it was my duty as chairman of ...
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... voted into the Toombs bill a clause which prohibited the convention from submitting the constitution to the people , and quoted what he pretended was the clause . Now , has not Mr. Trumbull entirely changed the evidence on which he ...
... voted into the Toombs bill a clause which prohibited the convention from submitting the constitution to the people , and quoted what he pretended was the clause . Now , has not Mr. Trumbull entirely changed the evidence on which he ...
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... vote of the people . Now I will show you that when Trumbull made that statement at Alton he knew it to be untrue . I ... voted in as an amendment . Thus I convict him of falsehood and slander by quoting from him on the passage of the ...
... vote of the people . Now I will show you that when Trumbull made that statement at Alton he knew it to be untrue . I ... voted in as an amendment . Thus I convict him of falsehood and slander by quoting from him on the passage of the ...
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... votes in the past are not satisfactory , I leave others to ascertain the fact ; if his course on the Mexican war was not in accordance with your notions of patriotism and fidelity to our own country as against a public enemy , I leave ...
... votes in the past are not satisfactory , I leave others to ascertain the fact ; if his course on the Mexican war was not in accordance with your notions of patriotism and fidelity to our own country as against a public enemy , I leave ...
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... and Southern disunionists . We did devise those means . Clay brought them forward , Cass advocated them , the Union Democrats and Union Whigs voted for them , Fillmore signed them , and they gave peace and quiet 1858 ] 13 AT CHARLESTON.
... and Southern disunionists . We did devise those means . Clay brought them forward , Cass advocated them , the Union Democrats and Union Whigs voted for them , Fillmore signed them , and they gave peace and quiet 1858 ] 13 AT CHARLESTON.
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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...