 ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must...  Complete Works - Page 144by Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
.... Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either ; I can. just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
.... Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either ; I can just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. ... I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...understanding is that I can just let her alone. ... I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes, if there was no law... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...else. Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 pages
...not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do...My understanding is that I can just let her alone. 1 am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...his reply, Lincoln said : " I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either; but, as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 432 pages
...inferences that are not warranted. I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either; but, as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...inferences that are not warranted. I protest, now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either; but, as... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...that are not warranted. I protest, now and for ever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that, because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is, that I need not have her for either; but,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...that are not warranted. I protest, now and for ever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that, because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is, that I need not have her for either; but,... | |
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