 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Upon a subsequent occasion, when the reason for making a statement like this occurred, I said: " While... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 766 pages
...Certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread which his own hand earns he is my equal, and the equal...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Concerning Douglas's charge that Lincoln's doctrine about the fate of the divided house was revolutionary,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1906 - 536 pages
...ILLINOIS HOUBK OP RKPRK8KXTATIVK8. (In which Lincoln made hU first speech in opposition to DOUR|M.) lie 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 fault about... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 372 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. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is woefully at fault about... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not niy equal in many respects — certainly not in color,...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 woefully at fault about... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1907 - 446 pages
...Declaration of Independence. ... I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, . . . perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." * 1 Cf. Hart, Slavery and Abolition (Am. Nation, XVI.). passim. * Tocqueville, Democracy in America... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 742 pages
...Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in morals or intellectual endowment — but in the right to...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,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 320 pages
...equal in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the judge's charge that the quotation he... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 322 pages
...equal in many respects, certainly not in color — perhaps not in intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the judge's charge that the quotation he... | |
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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. 
