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" Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. "
Abraham Lincoln: A Character Sketch - Page 117
by Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1903 - 180 pages
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850...

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...July 7tli. It was delivered June 26th. It is printed in the Life of Lincoln by WD Howells, p. 170. want her for a wife. I need not have her for either...; I can just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not iny equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands,...
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850...

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 566 pages
...only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with the negroes ! . . . Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily 1 In the New York Times, July 7th. It was delivered June 26th. It is printed in the Life of Lincoln...
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Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman ...

Henry Clay Whitney - Booksellers and bookselling - 1892 - 772 pages
...against that counterfeit logic which concludes that because I don't want a black woman for my slave, that I must, necessarily, want her for a wife. I need not have her for either ; I can just let her alone. In color, and, perhaps, in some other respects, she is not my equal ; but in her natural...
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Selections from the Works of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - 1893 - 130 pages
...sleep, and marry with negroes. He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that...equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands, without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal and the equal of...
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Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1

John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 410 pages
...office, nor to intermarry with white people. ... I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. ... I have never had the least apprehension that...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, Volume 64

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...sleep, and_marry with negroes ! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that...equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of...
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Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...sleep, and marry with negroes ! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that...equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of...
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Complete Works, Volume 12

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 428 pages
...of freedom. Letter to Governor Hahn, Mar. 13, 1864, vol. X, p. JÇ. NEITHER SLAVE NOR WIFE I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. Speech at Springfield, III., June 2J,1857, SMALL CURES FOR GREAT SORES Our best and greatest men have...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 438 pages
...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never...
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