Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 |
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... PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION : If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with ...
... PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION : If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with ...
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... President , in his last annual message , as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the indorsement . The Supreme Court met again , did not announce their decision , but ordered a re - argument ...
... President , in his last annual message , as impressively as possible echoed back upon the people the weight and authority of the indorsement . The Supreme Court met again , did not announce their decision , but ordered a re - argument ...
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... President and the author of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton Con- stitution was or was not in any just sense made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he ...
... President and the author of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton Con- stitution was or was not in any just sense made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he ...
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... President's felicitation on the indorsement ? Why the delay of a re - argument ? Why the incoming President's advance exhor- tation in favor of the decision ? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse ...
... President's felicitation on the indorsement ? Why the delay of a re - argument ? Why the incoming President's advance exhor- tation in favor of the decision ? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse ...
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... President , struggling with the difficulties of this man's getting up , has reached the very hardest point to turn in the case , he deserts him and I am for putting him where he will trouble us no more . " Now , gentlemen , that is not ...
... President , struggling with the difficulties of this man's getting up , has reached the very hardest point to turn in the case , he deserts him and I am for putting him where he will trouble us no more . " Now , gentlemen , that is not ...
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POLITICAL DEBATES BETWEEN ABRA Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln,Stephen Arnold 1813-1861 Douglas No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 124 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 95 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 137 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 227 - 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 as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 292 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 282 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people ; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 226 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Page 273 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 281 - ... a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 263 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.