 | Theodore Calvin Pease - World War, 1914-1918 - 1923 - 564 pages
...scrap of paper. This reverence for compact explains his attitude towards slavery. Convinced that where the white man governs himself that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs anM. other that is more than self-government, that is despotism — convinced that slavery is a violation... | |
 | Daniel B. Schirmer, Stephen Rosskamm Shalom - History - 1987 - 452 pages
...hold, with Abraham Lincoln, that "no man is good enough to govern another without that man's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government,...governs another man, that is more than self-government — this is despotism." "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense... | |
 | Clint Bolick - Social Science - 1988 - 174 pages
...to that extent a total destruction of selfgovernment, to say that he too shall not govern himself. When the white man governs himself that is self-government:...governs another man. that is more than self-government: this is despotism. 6 Lincoln thus exposed the tenuous ideological underpinnings of slavery, and with... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...settlers' "sacred right of self-government." Nonsense, replied Lincoln. Slavery was contrary to that right. "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...himself, and also governs another man . . . that is despotism. . . . The negro is a man. . . . There can be no moral right in connection with one man's... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
..."sacred right of self-government. " Nonsense, replied Lincoln. Slavery was contrary to that right. "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...himself, and also governs another man . . . that is despotism. . . . The negro is a man. . . . There can be no moral right in connection with one man's... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...to that extent, a total destruction of self-government, to say that he too shall not govern himself* When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying "The white... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Law - 1992 - 296 pages
...extent, a total destruction of self-government, to say that he too shall not govern /limse//.' ... If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches...right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.8 For Lincoln, as we know, the "crisis of the house divided" turned precisely on the question... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - United States - 1992 - 692 pages
...that is more than self-government-that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then my an169 cient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal;"...connection with one man's making a slave of another. Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying "The white... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...self-government, thought Lincoln, was preposterous. "When the white man governs himself," he said, "that is self-government; but when he governs himself...more than self-government — that is despotism." 154 The attempt of the South to found a new nation, which would be one very different from the American... | |
 | Lawrence J. Cunningham - History - 1992 - 148 pages
...institutor." Emerson. 5. "Every country has the government it deserves." Joseph de Maistre. 6. "When a white man governs himself, that is self-government;...governs himself and also governs another man, that is despotism...No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Abraham Lincoln.... | |
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But if the Negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man,... 
