 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 322 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 440 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 320 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 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.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 pages
...institution of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. [Laughter.] ^ I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 432 pages
...social and political equality of the black and white races, he said, ''Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. . . .1 have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 pages
...Haven, Conn., Mar. 6, 1860, vol. V , p. 343. CHESTNUT HORSE ARGUMENT Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. Reply at Ottawa Debate, Aug. 21, 1858, vol. III, p. 229. SLAVERY FOUNDED IN SELFISHNESS Slavery is... | |
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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... 
