Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 - Presidents |
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... Father Giddings , the high priest of Abolitionism , re- Iceived and christened them in the dark cause just as fast as they were brought in . Giddings found the con- verts so numerous that he had to have assistance , and he sent for John ...
... Father Giddings , the high priest of Abolitionism , re- Iceived and christened them in the dark cause just as fast as they were brought in . Giddings found the con- verts so numerous that he had to have assistance , and he sent for John ...
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... fathers made it ? When this government was established by Washing- ton , Jefferson , Madison , Jay , Hamilton , Franklin , and the other sages and patriots of that day , it was com- posed of free States and slave States , bound together ...
... fathers made it ? When this government was established by Washing- ton , Jefferson , Madison , Jay , Hamilton , Franklin , and the other sages and patriots of that day , it was com- posed of free States and slave States , bound together ...
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... fathers established it . During the whole period of our existence Divine Providence has smiled upon us , and showered upon our nation richer and more abundant blessings than have ever been con- ferred upon any other . Mr. Lincoln's ...
... fathers established it . During the whole period of our existence Divine Providence has smiled upon us , and showered upon our nation richer and more abundant blessings than have ever been con- ferred upon any other . Mr. Lincoln's ...
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... fathers placed it , no way but to keep it out of our new Territories - to restrict it forever to the old States where it now exists . Then the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction . That is ...
... fathers placed it , no way but to keep it out of our new Territories - to restrict it forever to the old States where it now exists . Then the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction . That is ...
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... fathers on the white basis . It was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever , and was intended to be administered by white men in all time to come . But while I hold that under our Constitution and ...
... fathers on the white basis . It was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever , and was intended to be administered by white men in all time to come . But while I hold that under our Constitution and ...
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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...