 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. " Mary will probably pass a day or two in Louisville in October. My kindest regards to Mrs.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 574 pages
...read, 'all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholies.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. "Your friend forever, "A. LINCOLN." This letter, written •with perfect freedom to an old... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...read, 'all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. "Your friend forever, "A. LINCOLN." This letter, written with perfect freedom to an old... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving 3iberty — to Eussia for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. " Your friend forever, "A. LINCOLN," This letter, written with perfect freedom to an old... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 510 pages
...Catholics.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty, — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy." The new Republican party, embracing all of every name who were... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1876 - 422 pages
...Catholics.' When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty, to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."* Upon principles like these was this republic founded, by striving to live up to them it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. Mary will probably pass a day or two in Louisville in October. My kindest regards to Mrs.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...Catholics. When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. . . . My kindest regards to Mrs. Speed. On the leading subject of this letter I have more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...Catholics. When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. . . . My kindest regards to Mrs. Speed. On the leading subject of this letter I have more... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. Letter to Joshua F. Speed, Aug. 24,1855, vol. II, p. 287. THE LAW OF LIBERTY they choose... | |
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As a nation, we began, by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners,... 
