Speeches and debates, 1858-1859Current Literature Publishing Company, 1907 - Presidents |
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... my ground of complaint in regard to that , or whether I had any ground of com- plaint , Judge Douglas has from that thing man- ufactured nearly everything that he ever says about my disposition 24 [ Sept. 18 DEBATE WITH DOUGLAS.
... my ground of complaint in regard to that , or whether I had any ground of com- plaint , Judge Douglas has from that thing man- ufactured nearly everything that he ever says about my disposition 24 [ Sept. 18 DEBATE WITH DOUGLAS.
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... regard to the latter portion of the judge's speech , which was a sort of declamation in reference to my hav- ing said I entertained the belief that this govern- ment would not endure half slave and half free . I have said so , and I did ...
... regard to the latter portion of the judge's speech , which was a sort of declamation in reference to my hav- ing said I entertained the belief that this govern- ment would not endure half slave and half free . I have said so , and I did ...
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... regard slavery as one of the common matters of prop- erty , and speak of negroes as we do of our horses and cattle . But while it drives on in its state of progress as it is now driving , and as it has driven for the last five years , I ...
... regard slavery as one of the common matters of prop- erty , and speak of negroes as we do of our horses and cattle . But while it drives on in its state of progress as it is now driving , and as it has driven for the last five years , I ...
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... regard to the Mexican war story , the more respectable papers of his own party throughout the State have been compelled to take it back and acknowledge that it was a lie . [ Here Mr. Lincoln turned to the crowd on the platform , and ...
... regard to the Mexican war story , the more respectable papers of his own party throughout the State have been compelled to take it back and acknowledge that it was a lie . [ Here Mr. Lincoln turned to the crowd on the platform , and ...
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... regard to a matter ten years old . Isn't he a pretty man to be whining about people making charges against him only two years old ! The judge thinks it is altogether wrong that I should have dwelt upon this charge of Trum- bull's at all ...
... regard to a matter ten years old . Isn't he a pretty man to be whining about people making charges against him only two years old ! The judge thinks it is altogether wrong that I should have dwelt upon this charge of Trum- bull's at all ...
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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...