The Promises of the Declaration of Independence: Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston, June 1, 1865 |
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... activity , would be needed to repel that haughty domination which was already so menacing to the Republic . The first field of conflict was in his own State , with no less an antagonist than Stephen A. Douglas , unhappily at 15.
... activity , would be needed to repel that haughty domination which was already so menacing to the Republic . The first field of conflict was in his own State , with no less an antagonist than Stephen A. Douglas , unhappily at 15.
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... Douglas , unhappily at that time in alliance with the Slave Power . The too famous Kansas and Nebraska bill , introduced by him into the Senate , assumed to set aside the venerable safe- guard of freedom in the territory west of ...
... Douglas , unhappily at that time in alliance with the Slave Power . The too famous Kansas and Nebraska bill , introduced by him into the Senate , assumed to set aside the venerable safe- guard of freedom in the territory west of ...
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... Douglas opened the debate on his side July 9 , 1858 , at Chicago , by a speech , in which he said , among other things , " I am opposed to negro equality . I repeat , that this nation is a white people . I am opposed to tak- ing any ...
... Douglas opened the debate on his side July 9 , 1858 , at Chicago , by a speech , in which he said , among other things , " I am opposed to negro equality . I repeat , that this nation is a white people . I am opposed to tak- ing any ...
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... Douglas again de- nied that colored persons could be citizens , and then broke forth upon the champion of the Declaration of Independence : " I will not quarrel with Mr. Lincoln for his views on that subject . I have no doubt he is ...
... Douglas again de- nied that colored persons could be citizens , and then broke forth upon the champion of the Declaration of Independence : " I will not quarrel with Mr. Lincoln for his views on that subject . I have no doubt he is ...
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... Douglas and his friends are not willing to stand by it , let them come up and amend it . Let them make it read that all men are created equal except negroes . Let us have it decided , whether the Declaration of Independence , in this ...
... Douglas and his friends are not willing to stand by it , let them come up and amend it . Let them make it read that all men are created equal except negroes . Let us have it decided , whether the Declaration of Independence , in this ...
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Page 26 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 47 - Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen...
Page 5 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 25 - All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all...
Page 24 - Think nothing of me; take no thought for the political fate of any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate, but you may take me and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry...
Page 9 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Page 43 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well ; Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Page 23 - And I will remind Judge Douglas and this audience, that while Mr. Jefferson was the owner of slaves, as undoubtedly he was, in speaking upon this very subject, he used the strong language that " he trembled for his country when he remembered that God was just...
Page 29 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 25 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.