 What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.  The Journal of Negro History - Page 9edited by - 1919Full view - About this book
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...keep them among us as underlings ? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition ? I think I would not hold one in' slavery at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...keep them among us as underlings ? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition ? I think 1 would not hold one in slavery at any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically arid socially our equals... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Nova Scotia - 1861 - 328 pages
...the choice of the Eepublican party, said, in 1858, in a speech on the all-absorbing question :—" Make them politically and socially our equals? My...feelings will not admit of this; and, if mine would, we know that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...delivered at Ottawa, Illinois, Aug. 21, 1858, Lincoln said, "I think I would not hold one (a slave) in slavery at any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and make them, politically and socially, our... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 462 pages
...and keep them among us as underlings ? It is quite certain that this betters their condition. I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate; yet, the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them and make them politically and socially our equals.... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...condition ? / think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them,...feelings will not admit of this ; and, if mine would, we all know that those of the great mass of white people would not. Whether this feeling accerds with... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1889 - 370 pages
...and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals?... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...keep them among us as underlings ? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition ? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - United States - 1892 - 398 pages
...and keep them among us as underlings? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition.? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals?... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...keep them among us as underlings ? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition ? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the...denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and make them-politically and socially our equals ? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would,... | |
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