Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 - Presidents |
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... Election . March 1 , 1859 Douglas's " Popular Sovereignty " the Mask of Nationalized Slavery . Speech at Columbus , Ohio . September 16 , 1859 " A Shot over the Line . " An Address to Ken- tuckians on Douglas's Fallacies , Delivered at ...
... Election . March 1 , 1859 Douglas's " Popular Sovereignty " the Mask of Nationalized Slavery . Speech at Columbus , Ohio . September 16 , 1859 " A Shot over the Line . " An Address to Ken- tuckians on Douglas's Fallacies , Delivered at ...
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... Election . March 1 , 1859 Douglas's " Popular Sovereignty " the Mask of Nationalized Slavery . Ohio . September 16 , 1859 Speech at Columbus , " A Shot over the Line . " An Address to Ken- tuckians on Douglas's Fallacies , Delivered at ...
... Election . March 1 , 1859 Douglas's " Popular Sovereignty " the Mask of Nationalized Slavery . Ohio . September 16 , 1859 Speech at Columbus , " A Shot over the Line . " An Address to Ken- tuckians on Douglas's Fallacies , Delivered at ...
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... in retailing a charge made by Senator Trumbull against me . The circumstances out of which that charge was manufactured , occurred prior to the last presidential election , over two years ago . If the charge was true , why did.
... in retailing a charge made by Senator Trumbull against me . The circumstances out of which that charge was manufactured , occurred prior to the last presidential election , over two years ago . If the charge was true , why did.
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... election . Trumbull knew this , the whole Senate knew it , and hence he was silent at that time . He waited until I became engaged in this canvass , and finding that I was showing up Lincoln's Abolitionism and negro - equality doctrines ...
... election . Trumbull knew this , the whole Senate knew it , and hence he was silent at that time . He waited until I became engaged in this canvass , and finding that I was showing up Lincoln's Abolitionism and negro - equality doctrines ...
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... until the complete execution of this act , no other election shall be held in said Territory . ' Trumbull says that the object of that amendment In the opinion of your committee , whenever a consti- 31 7 AT CHARLESTON.
... until the complete execution of this act , no other election shall be held in said Territory . ' Trumbull says that the object of that amendment In the opinion of your committee , whenever a consti- 31 7 AT CHARLESTON.
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Page 58 - 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 47 - 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 158 - 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 134 - 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 24 - 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 88 - 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 135 - 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 191 - 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 135 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and the 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 intermarry with white people...