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" I believe it was made by white men. for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever... "
Complete Works - Page 254
by Abraham Lincoln - 1894
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Select Orations Illustrating American Political History

Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 pages
...citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the w^itc 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~aiioT3escen^ instead Tifconferring...
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The Negro Problem: Abraham Lincoln's Solution

William Passmore Pickett - African Americans - 1909 - 614 pages
...ground: For one I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government 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...
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Argumentation and Debate

Joseph Villiers Denney, Carson Samuel Duncan, Frank Cowen McKinney - Debates and debating - 1910 - 414 pages
...declared that doctrine. I hold that this government was established on the white basis. It was established by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men, 30 and none others. But it does not follow, by any means, that...
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Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 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...
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A New Nation

Charles Lester Barstow - United States - 1912 - 234 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...
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Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)

Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 478 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...
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The Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate

Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 pages
...declared that doctrine. I hold that this government was established on the white basis. It was established by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men, and none others. But it does not follow by any means, that merely...
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The land and slavery question, 1607-1860

Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 444 pages
...opposition to the Dred Scott decision implied acceptance of negro equality. ' I believe that this government 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 . . . instead of conferring it upon negroes, Indians,...
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Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 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...
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White America

Earnest Sevier Cox - African Americans - 1923 - 408 pages
...(1858), said, "I am .opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe that this government was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." The immortal Lincoln answered Douglas with, "I will say then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in...
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