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... Speeches and debates, 1858-1859 - Page 47by Abraham Lincoln - 1907Full view - About this book
| Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 350 pages
...disapproved his celebrated declaration that the government could not endure half slave, half free. ' In the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he (the negro) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man" — was... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right of life, .liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...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...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospels: Matthru: By JOHN H. MORISON. Boston : Walker, Wise & Co. Cincinnati... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 804 pages
...not entitled to aJl the natural rights enumerated In the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects— certainly not In color, perhaps not in moral or Intellectual... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...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...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
| Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...equal in m&ny respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, lie la my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. At Gulesburg, October,... | |
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