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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... opposition members , " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slav- ery . " " Not we , " said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska ...
... opposition members , " let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slav- ery . " " Not we , " said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska ...
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... oppose the advances of slavery ? He don't care anything about it . His avowed mission is impressing the " public heart " to care nothing about it . A leading Douglas Democratic newspaper thinks Douglas's superior talent will be needed ...
... oppose the advances of slavery ? He don't care anything about it . His avowed mission is impressing the " public heart " to care nothing about it . A leading Douglas Democratic newspaper thinks Douglas's superior talent will be needed ...
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... opposed . All I can say is , that if their votes can be controlled by such con- siderations , all the sympathy which has been expended upon them has been misplaced , and all the efforts that have been made in defence of their right to ...
... opposed . All I can say is , that if their votes can be controlled by such con- siderations , all the sympathy which has been expended upon them has been misplaced , and all the efforts that have been made in defence of their right to ...
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... opposition to the Lecompton Constitution was not predicated upon the ground that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would my action have been differ- ent had it been a Free - soil constitution . My speech against the Lecompton ...
... opposition to the Lecompton Constitution was not predicated upon the ground that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would my action have been differ- ent had it been a Free - soil constitution . My speech against the Lecompton ...
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... opposition to their wishes , and thus violated the great principle upon which all our institutions rest . It is no answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil , and hence should not be tolerated . You must allow the people to ...
... opposition to their wishes , and thus violated the great principle upon which all our institutions rest . It is no answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil , and hence should not be tolerated . You must allow the people to ...
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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.