 | Richard Miller Devens - Industries - 1883 - 756 pages
...rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to...not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But, in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of any one else, which his own hand... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit CHAP.VIII. of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to...not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment ; but in the right to eat the bread without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit CHAP. vin. of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to...the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not iny equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Presidents - 1891 - 416 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 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 not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." ' He continued in the strain, and in almost the words, of his Springfield speech of 1857.' Lincoln... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...he is as much entitled to these as the white man." ' He continued in the strain, and in almost the words, of his Springfield speech of 1857.' Lincoln... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - Presidents - 1893 - 410 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas that he is not my equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 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...not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand... | |
 | Robert M. King - School management and organization - 1894 - 348 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat, without the leave of anybody else, the bread which his own hand... | |
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I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is... 
