 | United States - 1901 - 538 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men. for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever; and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of... | |
 | Jesse Harper - 1904 - 420 pages
...conciliating slavery, used this language, "I hold that this government was made on the white basis by white men for the benefit of white men, and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others. I do not believe the Almighty made the negro capable... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 350 pages
...this country as a slave, is not a citizen, and cannot be." I say that this government was established on the white basis. It was made by white men for the...benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and never should be administered by any except white men. I declare that a negro ought not to be a citizen,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 454 pages
...ought to be a citizen. I believe that this Government of ours was founded, and wisely founded, upon the white basis. It was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity, to be executed and managed by white men. I freely concede that humanity requires us to extend all the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 506 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever; and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever ; and I am in favor of confining citizenship to white men, men of European birth and descent, instead of... | |
 | William Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 256 pages
...to a tumultuous town meeting when constitutional questions arose. The Federal Government was founded on the white basis. It was made by white men, for the- benefit of white men, to be administered by white men in such manner as they should determine. Let each State decide for... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 456 pages
...ought to be a citizen of the United States. I hold that this government was made on the white basis, by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others. I do not believe that the Almighty made the negro... | |
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I believe it was made by white men. for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever... 
