 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 440 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 recurred, I said : While... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1908 - 744 pages
...[Loud cheers.] 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. [Great applause.] Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The Judge is wofully... | |
 | Illinois - 1908 - 702 pages
...my 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...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every livings man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 pages
...intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody eke, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every livings man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the... | |
 | Alfred Holt Stone - African Americans - 1908 - 588 pages
...words: "In the right to eat the bread which his own hand earns, without the leave of anybody else, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."J This right was guaranteed the Negro, as incident to his emancipation. But there follows also... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 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 wofully at fault about... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 518 pages
...Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Referring to the quotation from his Springfield speech of the words, " A house divided against itself... | |
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 536 pages
...Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Referring to the quotation from his Springfield speech of the words, "A house divided against itself... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1909 - 406 pages
...Lincoln, in reply, after asserting their equality under the Declaration of Independence, added : " In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of...Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Douglas often said — and he commanded the cheers of his supporters when he said it — " I do not... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1909 - 946 pages
...right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he (the Negro) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." When the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Dred Scott, practically declared that there... | |
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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. 
