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. |
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... equal as a par- liamentary debater and party organizer Amer- ican history has hardly produced , had been for eight years the most forceful leader of the Demo- cratic party , and the most conspicuous figure in national politics . As a ...
... equal as a par- liamentary debater and party organizer Amer- ican history has hardly produced , had been for eight years the most forceful leader of the Demo- cratic party , and the most conspicuous figure in national politics . As a ...
Сторінка xxx
... equal ; second , that no negro could become a citizen of the United States ; third , that the right to hold slaves as prop- erty was affirmed in the Constitution ; fourth , that neither Congress nor any territorial legislature could ...
... equal ; second , that no negro could become a citizen of the United States ; third , that the right to hold slaves as prop- erty was affirmed in the Constitution ; fourth , that neither Congress nor any territorial legislature could ...
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... two parties were nearly of equal strength ; and Jonesboro and Alton , in the strongly Democratic region of southern Illinois . The conditions of the first debate at Ottawa were that Douglas should open with a speech xxxviii INTRODUCTION.
... two parties were nearly of equal strength ; and Jonesboro and Alton , in the strongly Democratic region of southern Illinois . The conditions of the first debate at Ottawa were that Douglas should open with a speech xxxviii INTRODUCTION.
Сторінка xliv
... equal of the white man . In rising at length above questions of state and constitution to view slavery in the light of moral law - of absolute right and wrong - Lincoln placed the argument on a plane where Douglas could not follow him ...
... equal of the white man . In rising at length above questions of state and constitution to view slavery in the light of moral law - of absolute right and wrong - Lincoln placed the argument on a plane where Douglas could not follow him ...
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... equal ; and when they insisted on his doing this , they very well knew they insisted on that which he would not for a moment think of doing , and that they were only bluffing him . I be- lieve ( I have not , since he made his answer ...
... equal ; and when they insisted on his doing this , they very well knew they insisted on that which he would not for a moment think of doing , and that they were only bluffing him . I be- lieve ( I have not , since he made his answer ...
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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.