 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 348 pages
...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 another sterling utterance which struck home to the North. While Lincoln was pleading the cause... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread that she has earned with the sweat of her brow, she is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of any man." Indeed, upon a sympathetic audience, already excited by the occasion, he could produce an... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects— certainly not...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The Judge is \vofully at fault about... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...equal in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the quotation... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason for making a statement like this recurred, I said : —... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 348 pages
...intellectual and moral endowments ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of any body else which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the quotation... | |
 | Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, lie is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason for making a statement like this recurred, I said : " While... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Campaign literature - 1860 - 368 pages
...; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, be is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every other man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the quotation... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1865 - 570 pages
...but little, that little let him enjoy. In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of any body else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In his highest prosperity he never forgot his kindred with men. of low estate. Amid all the cares of office,... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. At Galesburg, October, 1858, he said : The Judge has alluded to the Declaration of Independence, and... | |
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But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. 
