Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stehen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois: Including the Preceedings 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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... slave trade . Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so . Does he really think so ? But if it is , how can he resist it ? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to ...
... slave trade . Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching ? He has not said so . Does he really think so ? But if it is , how can he resist it ? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to ...
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... slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave trade - how can he refuse that trade in that " property shall be " perfectly free " -unless he does it as a protection to the home production ...
... slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave trade - how can he refuse that trade in that " property shall be " perfectly free " -unless he does it as a protection to the home production ...
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... slavery should not go into the new Territory , where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade , by which slaves are sup- plied , might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I ...
... slavery should not go into the new Territory , where it had not already gone ? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade , by which slaves are sup- plied , might be cut off by Congress ? Why were all these acts ? I ...
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... slavery . It may draw white men down , but it must not lift negroes up . Who shall say , " I am the superior , and ... slave trade at the end of twenty years . They also prohibited it in the Territories where it did not ex- ist . They ...
... slavery . It may draw white men down , but it must not lift negroes up . Who shall say , " I am the superior , and ... slave trade at the end of twenty years . They also prohibited it in the Territories where it did not ex- ist . They ...
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... Slave law ; to restrict slavery to those States in which it exists ; to prohibit the admission of any more slave ... trade between the different States . I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the ...
... Slave law ; to restrict slavery to those States in which it exists ; to prohibit the admission of any more slave ... trade between the different States . I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the ...
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Page 32 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 228 - 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 push...
Page 2 - 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 17 - 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.
Page 250 - 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 1 - 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 4 - ... we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.
Page 136 - 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 225 - 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 194 - 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.