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" ... 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... "
Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) - Page 128
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The Hungry Mills

Norman Longmate - Business & Economics - 1978 - 344 pages
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Societal Change and the Evolution of American Race Relations

Richard Phillip Young - African Americans - 1979 - 728 pages
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Fountain of Discontent: The Trent Affair and Freedom of the Seas

Gordon H. Warren - Freedom of the seas - 1981 - 328 pages
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Political Thought in America: An Anthology

Michael B. Levy - Political Science - 1982 - 500 pages
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Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky

William Henry Townsend - Kentucky - 1989 - 448 pages
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A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations

Education - 1985 - 392 pages
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The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History

Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 486 pages
...charges that he favored perfect political and social equality between the races, Lincoln continued, was but "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." Also at Ottawa Lincoln thanked Douglas for calling him "kind,...
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 1 1832-1858 (LOA #45)

Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...institution of slavery or the black race, and this is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastical arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse....
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Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and ...

Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...Politics, p. 161. 61 Ibid., pp. 161-}. As to emancipation, Lincoln tried to make it clear that he had "no purpose, either directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists." Yet he left little doubt that he believed in the right of blacks eventually to be...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 111

English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...unreserved and unqualified manner. In his inaugural address he solemnly declared — ' I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...exists ; I believe I have no lawful right to do so. Those who nominated and elected me did so with a full knowledge that I had made this and many similar...
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