 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 318 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 - United States - 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...that he is my brother or any kin to me whatever. LINCOLN AT OTTAWA: Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. [Laughter.] I will say here, while upon this subject, that I... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Lincoln - 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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... 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... 
