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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... wrong . But can we , for that reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change , of which he himself has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I wish ...
... wrong . But can we , for that reason , run ahead , and infer that he will make any particular change , of which he himself has given no intimation ? Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference ? Now , as ever , I wish ...
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... wrong , whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; and the right of free action , the right of free thought , the right of free judgment , upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free ...
... wrong , whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it ; and the right of free action , the right of free thought , the right of free judgment , upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free ...
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... wrong , because it deprives the negro of the benefits of that clause of the Con- stitution which says that citizens of one State shall enjoy all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States ; in other words , he ...
... wrong , because it deprives the negro of the benefits of that clause of the Con- stitution which says that citizens of one State shall enjoy all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States ; in other words , he ...
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... wrong in the time that it was brought forward . It was wrong in the application to a Territory in regard to which the question had been settled ; it was brought forward at a time when nobody asked him ; it was tendered to the South when ...
... wrong in the time that it was brought forward . It was wrong in the application to a Territory in regard to which the question had been settled ; it was brought forward at a time when nobody asked him ; it was tendered to the South when ...
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... wrong . It is enough for my purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republican said anything against it . They never said anything against it , but they have constantly spoken for it ; and whoever will under- take to examine the platform ...
... wrong . It is enough for my purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republican said anything against it . They never said anything against it , but they have constantly spoken for it ; and whoever will under- take to examine the platform ...
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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.