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Page 91
... favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our prog- ress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid . As a nation we began by declaring that " all men are created equal . " We now practically read it " all men are created equal ...
... favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our prog- ress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid . As a nation we began by declaring that " all men are created equal . " We now practically read it " all men are created equal ...
Page 95
... favor his views , invented the phrase " State equality , " and now the President , in his message , adopts the " Enquirer's " catch- phrase , telling us the people " have asserted the constitu- tional equality of each and all of the ...
... favor his views , invented the phrase " State equality , " and now the President , in his message , adopts the " Enquirer's " catch- phrase , telling us the people " have asserted the constitu- tional equality of each and all of the ...
Page 103
... favor or retard colonization incidentally . The enterprise is a difficult one ; but " where there is a will there is a way , " and what colonization needs most is a hearty will . Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and ...
... favor or retard colonization incidentally . The enterprise is a difficult one ; but " where there is a will there is a way , " and what colonization needs most is a hearty will . Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and ...
Page 106
... favor of making them entirely uniform . He draws this inference from the language I have quoted to you . He says that I am in favor of making war by the North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of in ...
... favor of making them entirely uniform . He draws this inference from the language I have quoted to you . He says that I am in favor of making war by the North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of in ...
Page 108
... favor of interfering with slavery where it exists , I know it is unwarranted by anything I have ever intended , and , as I believe , by anything I have ever said . If by any means I have ever used language which could fairly be so ...
... favor of interfering with slavery where it exists , I know it is unwarranted by anything I have ever intended , and , as I believe , by anything I have ever said . If by any means I have ever used language which could fairly be so ...
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