 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Constitutional history - 2005 - 444 pages
...himself! When the white man governs himself that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself, he also governs another man, that is more than self-government—...are created equal"; and that there can be no moral rights in connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently with bitter... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...most was the sincerity of his conviction of the moral wrong of the "monstrous injustice of slavery. There can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another," he stated emphatically, and went on to draw the inevitable conclusion that extending it into territories... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 pages
...sense, the right of the people in a state to do as they pleased about slavery was no right at all. ! I When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Nothing in the constitutional distinction between states and territories made slavery in the states... | |
 | Arthur Riss - Literary Criticism - 2006
...total destruction of selfgovernment, to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, and also governs another 'man, that...there can be no moral right in connection with one man making a slave of another.73 Although clearly intended as a rhetorical strategy since Lincoln asserts... | |
 | Ron Soodalter - Executions and executioners - 2006 - 337 pages
...that case, he who is a man may, as a matter of self-government, do just as he pleases with him. ... If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches...connection with one man's making a slave of another. . . . Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on,... | |
 | Robert Walter Johannsen - History - 2006 - 366 pages
..."all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence was meant to include all men. Thus, "[w]hen the white man governs himself that is self-government;...more than self-government — that is despotism." Lincoln believed the settlers of the territories were capable of governing themselves, however "no... | |
 | Robert E. Greenwood - 2006 - 416 pages
...been a threeway split in the electorate. He did hold the nation together while freeing black slaves. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism (emphasis added, Abraham Lincoln, October 16, 1854). Was this statement more than a memorial to his... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 2007 - 344 pages
...1858, id at 102, 130. See also his earlier speech at Peoria, Oct 16, 1854, 2 Lincoln Works at 247, 266: "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism." 54. I have elsewhere expressed doubts whether the world is ready... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...course. But, Douglas misapplied it. He uses it to protect the White population only. He boldly declared: When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...negro is a man," is it not indecent and grotesque "to say that he too shall not govern himself? . . . If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal'. . . ,"13 But what of Douglas's contention that American slavery would stay away from Kansas and Nebraska... | |
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But if the Negro is a man, is it not 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; but when he governs himself and also governs another man,... 
