I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,... Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 121by Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
| G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 356 pages
...favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters...between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch... | |
| David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
...of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters...physical difference between the white and black races. ... I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white... | |
| Thomas DiPiero - Social Science - 2002 - 356 pages
...supporter of racial equality, never abandoned a belief in biological inequality. Citing Lincoln's claim that "there is a physical difference between the white...together on terms of social and political equality" (S. Gould, The Mismeasure of Man [New York: Norton, 1996], 66), he writes: "I quote the men who have... | |
| Allan H. Keith - History - 2002 - 76 pages
...bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races •• that l am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters...hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and l will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races... | |
| Elise Virginia Lemire - American literature - 2002 - 224 pages
...favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters...them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people."11 Now, in 1864, with emancipation a reality, Croly and Wakeman carefully spell out the logic... | |
| Thomas Koys - History - 2002 - 244 pages
...white and black races ... I am not nor ever 15. Donald, Lincoln, p. 201 16. Donald, Lincoln, p. 207 have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes,...to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people . . . There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever... | |
| Eugene H. Berwanger - Frontier and pioneer life - 2002 - 196 pages
...met at Charleston for Lincoln to begin his speech with the statement that he was not and never had been "in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes,...them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people."46 If the Republican party needed a man of conservative expression to win the uncommitted vote,... | |
| Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 186 pages
...of bringing about in any way, the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them marry with white people.... | |
| Kenneth C. Davis - History - 2009 - 717 pages
...favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters...this that there is a physical difference between the races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political... | |
| Melba J. Duncan - History - 2003 - 324 pages
...way the social and political equality of the white and black races... [Audience applauds] ... that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters...office, nor to intermarry with white people ... And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior... | |
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