...should be allowed to determine for themselves whether they shall be allowed to own slaves, he answered; "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...right in connection with one man's making a slave of another."15 Lincoln denied that the Nebraska question was a local matter. "The whole nation," he said,...

...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...connection with one man's making a slave of another. 1 72 The purpose of the war, for the North, was to prevent the southern states' secession, which is...

...to that extent, a total destruction of self-government, to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...himself, and also governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment—that is despotism." No man, Lincoln insists, is good enough to govern another without...

...Lincoln's speech was his tone of moral outrage when he discussed "the monstrous injustice of slavery." "There can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another," he thundered. It followed, then, that the extension of slavery into the territories and, prospectively,...

...of Abraham Lincoln, v. 6, p. 335. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). See also PARDONS DESPOTISM When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. "Speech at Peoria, Illinois," October 16, 1854, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v....

...Lincoln also inserted the oppositional position of the full stature of black humanity to demonstrate that if "the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith...connection with one man's making a slave of another .... What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent"...

...inseparable from his sentiment, Lincoln went on to argue, from the premise of "humanity in the negro": "If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal.'" Therefore, "there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another" (328)....

...is a man, is it not a total destruction of self-government to say that he shall not govern himself} When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...connection with one man's making a slave of another." But, I said, where bondage already existed, we must, of necessity, manage as we best could. What was...

...slavery, which the senator claimed had been done purely on the basis of self-government. Lincoln argued: "When the white man governs himself that is self-government,...right in connection with one man's making a slave of another."10 Having hoisted the banner of the Declaration in the cause of the humanity of blacks and...

...the white man governs himself. that is self-government; hut when he governs himself and я/so gorerns another man. that is more than self-government —...that "all men are created equal;" and that there can he no moral right in connection with one man 's making a slave of another. . . . Sluven- is founded...