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 |
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... vote . I am opposed to it . If they had a vote , I reckon they would all vote for him in preference to me , entertaining the views I do . But that matters not . The position he has taken on this question not only presents him as ...
... vote . I am opposed to it . If they had a vote , I reckon they would all vote for him in preference to me , entertaining the views I do . But that matters not . The position he has taken on this question not only presents him as ...
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... vote on an equality with the white man . I do not quarrel with our friends in Maine for that . If they think it wise ... vote of a white man , it is their business , and not mine . On the other hand , New 7 York permits a negro to vote ...
... vote on an equality with the white man . I do not quarrel with our friends in Maine for that . If they think it wise ... vote of a white man , it is their business , and not mine . On the other hand , New 7 York permits a negro to vote ...
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... vote , provided he is rich , but not otherwise . They allow the aristocratic negro to vote there . I never saw the wisdom , the propriety , or the justice of that decision on the part of New York , and yet it never occurred to me that I ...
... vote , provided he is rich , but not otherwise . They allow the aristocratic negro to vote there . I never saw the wisdom , the propriety , or the justice of that decision on the part of New York , and yet it never occurred to me that I ...
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... vote was taken , was so objectionable as to make it unfair and unjust . Šir , it is an axiom with me that in every free government an unfair election is no election at all . Every election should be free , should be fair , with the same ...
... vote was taken , was so objectionable as to make it unfair and unjust . Šir , it is an axiom with me that in every free government an unfair election is no election at all . Every election should be free , should be fair , with the same ...
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... vote for the acceptance of the Congressional proposition , Kansas from that moment becomes a State of the Union , the law admitting her becomes irrepealable , and thus the controversy terminates forever ; if , on the other hand , the ...
... vote for the acceptance of the Congressional proposition , Kansas from that moment becomes a State of the Union , the law admitting her becomes irrepealable , and thus the controversy terminates forever ; if , on the other hand , the ...
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Page 24 - 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 241 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
Page 105 - 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...
Page 254 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. 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. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops...
Page 264 - I equality with the negro, is but 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 279 - 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 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 241 - 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.
Page 245 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 112 - 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.