The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: In the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Arnold Douglas; Containing Also Lincoln's Address at Cooper InstituteHolt, 1905 - 297 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 50
Сторінка xxxii
... adopted on December 21 , 1857 , the Lecompton plotters formally applied for the admission of Kansas to the Union . President Buchanan , utterly subservient , gave the influence of the Administration to the iniquitous scheme . For ...
... adopted on December 21 , 1857 , the Lecompton plotters formally applied for the admission of Kansas to the Union . President Buchanan , utterly subservient , gave the influence of the Administration to the iniquitous scheme . For ...
Сторінка 7
... adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Sen- ator's individual opinion withheld , till after the Presidential election ? Plainly enough now : the 30 ...
... adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Sen- ator's individual opinion withheld , till after the Presidential election ? Plainly enough now : the 30 ...
Сторінка 18
... adopt the constitution , do such an extraordinary thing as to adopt a slave constitution , uninfluenced by the actual presence of the institution among them , I see no alternative , if we own the country , but to 20 admit them into the ...
... adopt the constitution , do such an extraordinary thing as to adopt a slave constitution , uninfluenced by the actual presence of the institution among them , I see no alternative , if we own the country , but to 20 admit them into the ...
Сторінка 20
... all other respects , 30 adopt a State constitution , and ask admission into the Union under it , before they have the requisite number of inhabitants according to the English bill , -some 20 JOINT DEBATE AT FREEPORT 20.
... all other respects , 30 adopt a State constitution , and ask admission into the Union under it , before they have the requisite number of inhabitants according to the English bill , -some 20 JOINT DEBATE AT FREEPORT 20.
Сторінка 21
... adopting , and following such decision as a rule of political action ? Q. 4. Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory , in disregard of how such acquisition may 15 affect the nation on the slavery question ? As introductory to ...
... adopting , and following such decision as a rule of political action ? Q. 4. Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory , in disregard of how such acquisition may 15 affect the nation on the slavery question ? As introductory to ...
Інші видання - Показати все
The Lincoln and Douglas Debates in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in ... Abraham Lincoln Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
The Lincoln And Douglas Debates: In The Senatorial Campaign Of 1858 In ... Abraham Lincoln Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2018 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists admission admit adopted affirmed agitation amendment answer argument believe Buchanan campaign charge Chase coln Compromise Congress Convention debate decide Declaration of Independence doctrine Douglas's Dred Scott decision election English bill equal exclude slavery exist fact fathers who framed favor Federal Territories framed the government Freeport friends Fugitive Slave law Galesburgh Henry Clay hold Illinois institution of slavery interrogatories issue Judge Douglas Kansas Kansas-Nebraska Kansas-Nebraska Act leader Lecompton Constitution legislation Legislature Lincoln ment Missouri Missouri Compromise moral Nebraska bill negro never North Northern opinion opposed Ottawa passed platform pledged political President principle prohibit slavery proposition race regard reply Republican party resolutions Senator Douglas sentiment slaveholding slavery question South Southern speech Springfield stand stitution suppose Supreme Court thing tion to-day Trumbull ultimate extinction United States Senate vote Washington Union Wilmot Proviso wrong ΙΟ
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 290 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Сторінка 57 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Сторінка 240 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Сторінка 224 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Сторінка 87 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Сторінка 116 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Сторінка 31 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Сторінка xlviii - ... otherwise called *' sacred right of self-government," which latter phrase, though expressive of the only rightful basis of any government, was so perverted in this attempted use of it as to amount to just this : That if any one man choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object. That argument was incorporated...
Сторінка 236 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President ! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Сторінка 194 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.