 | David Zarefsky - History - 1993 - 324 pages
...her for a wife." In the Ottawa debate, he proclaimed that "anything that argues me into [Douglas's] 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." Most explicitly, at Charleston, he declared, "I am not, nor... | |
 | Bernard L. Brock, Robert Lee Scott, James W. Chesebro - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 524 pages
...oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United Sates ..." Again he observes, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists"; "I now reiterate these sentiments"; "I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations";"Kou... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - History - 1991 - 474 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.... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Rhetoric - 1993 - 272 pages
...prescribed by the Constitution of the United States. . . ." Again, he observes, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists"; "I now reiterate these sentiments"; "I take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations"; "You... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 240 pages
...Therefore any attempt to twist his views into a call for perfect political and social equality was "but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." We shall probably never know whether Lincoln was voicing his... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...worn cliches of humor, calling Douglas's misrepresentations of his views on race an example of that "specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which...can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse." He lapsed into legal language that must have been all but incomprehensible to his audience. Because... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - History - 1997 - 592 pages
...inaugural by repeating his assurances on the question of slavery in the South. "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and have no inclination to do so." The South ignored him and the war came.38 July 1862. Lincoln implored... | |
 | Carolyn Lawton Harrell - Public opinion - 1997 - 156 pages
...office, he delivered his inaugural address while standing on the steps of the Capitol. I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution...in the states where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so. I now reiterate these sentiments . . . and in doing so I only press upon the public... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...At some point in his speech, talking about niggers, he said that "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." But it was Lincoln, on this conspiracy business, who was trying... | |
| |
... 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... 
