Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 - Presidents |
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... give them a brief attention , while I shall have to totally omit others for the want of time . Judge Douglas has said to you that he has not been able to get from me an answer to the ques- tion whether I am in favor of negro citizenship ...
... give them a brief attention , while I shall have to totally omit others for the want of time . Judge Douglas has said to you that he has not been able to get from me an answer to the ques- tion whether I am in favor of negro citizenship ...
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... give such indorsement , and voted against it ; but I never voted against the supplies for the army , and he knows , as well as Judge Douglas , that whenever a dollar was asked by way of compensation or otherwise , for the benefit of the ...
... give such indorsement , and voted against it ; but I never voted against the supplies for the army , and he knows , as well as Judge Douglas , that whenever a dollar was asked by way of compensation or otherwise , for the benefit of the ...
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... he does that until he gives a better or more plau- sible reason than he has offered against the evi- dence in the case - I suggest to him it will not avail him at a that be swells himself up , 1858 ] 35 AT CHARLESTON.
... he does that until he gives a better or more plau- sible reason than he has offered against the evi- dence in the case - I suggest to him it will not avail him at a that be swells himself up , 1858 ] 35 AT CHARLESTON.
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... give a promise that he will vote for the ad- mission of Kansas at once , whenever she forms a constitution in pursuance of law , and ratifies it by a majority vote of her people . Not only is this the case with English himself , but I ...
... give a promise that he will vote for the ad- mission of Kansas at once , whenever she forms a constitution in pursuance of law , and ratifies it by a majority vote of her people . Not only is this the case with English himself , but I ...
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... give that pledge , for the reason that I did not intend to carry out that principle . I never will consent , for the sake of conciliating the frowns of power , to pledge myself to do that which I do not intend to perform . I now submit ...
... give that pledge , for the reason that I did not intend to carry out that principle . I never will consent , for the sake of conciliating the frowns of power , to pledge myself to do that which I do not intend to perform . I now submit ...
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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...