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... slave , is not a citizen , and cannot be . " I say that this government was established on the white basis . It was ... slave States , cannot endure permanently ; that they must either be all free or all slave , all one thing or all the ...
... slave , is not a citizen , and cannot be . " I say that this government was established on the white basis . It was ... slave States , cannot endure permanently ; that they must either be all free or all slave , all one thing or all the ...
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... slavery agitation -one of these " final settlements . " Is Kansas in the Union ? Has she formed a constitution that she is likely to come in under ? Is not the slavery agitation still an open question in that Territory ? Has the voting ...
... slavery agitation -one of these " final settlements . " Is Kansas in the Union ? Has she formed a constitution that she is likely to come in under ? Is not the slavery agitation still an open question in that Territory ? Has the voting ...
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... slave , stand on an exact equality . Equality among the different States is a cardinal principle on which all our institutions rest . Wherever , therefore , you make a discrimina- tion , saying to a slave State that it shall be admitted ...
... slave , stand on an exact equality . Equality among the different States is a cardinal principle on which all our institutions rest . Wherever , therefore , you make a discrimina- tion , saying to a slave State that it shall be admitted ...
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... slavery . I held then , and hold now , that if the people of Kansas want a slave State , it is their right to make one and be received into the Union under it ; if , on the contrary , they want a free State , it is their right to have ...
... slavery . I held then , and hold now , that if the people of Kansas want a slave State , it is their right to make one and be received into the Union under it ; if , on the contrary , they want a free State , it is their right to have ...
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... slave and free States , in Kentucky as well as Illinois , in Louisiana as well as in Massachusetts . Such was the case with the Old Whig party , and such was and is the case with the Democratic party . Whigs and Democrats could pro ...
... slave and free States , in Kentucky as well as Illinois , in Louisiana as well as in Massachusetts . Such was the case with the Old Whig party , and such was and is the case with the Democratic party . Whigs and Democrats could pro ...
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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...