 | Henry William Elson - United States - 1899 - 424 pages
...happiness. " I agree with Judge Douglas," said he, " that the negro is not my equal in many respects . . . but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." His most eloquent apostrophe to the Declaration of Independence had been uttered early in August at... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. "I agree with Judge Douglas: he (the negro) is not my equal in many respects — certainly not...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. "I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong, wrong in its direct effect, letting slavery into... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in morals or intellectual endowment—hut in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of...Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man." In support of the rights and privileges of anti-slavery people and parties of all shades and opinions,... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...;V.1- HOC8E OP REPRR8ENTATIVKS. (In which Lincaln m«d« hl« firet «pe«cb In apeasiuon ta DoniriM.) he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is wofully at fuult about... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. !N"ow I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is wofully at fault... | |
 | John Graham Brooks - Labor - 1903 - 412 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." In passages like this, it is made fearlessly clear that the great democrat is not arguing for impossible... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Henry Clay, my beau ideal of a statesman, the man for whom I fought all my humble life — Henry Clay... | |
 | John Graham Brooks - Labor movement - 1903 - 428 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living In passages like this, it is made fearlessly clear that the great democrat is not arguing for impossible... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Henry Clay, my beau ideal of a statesman, the man for whom I fought all my humble life—Henry Clay... | |
 | Norman Dwight Harris - African Americans - 1904 - 316 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly...equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.1 All I ask for the negro is, that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little,... | |
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But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. 
