Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and debates, 1856-1858Current literature publishing Company, 1907 |
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... Popular Sovereignty " the Right to Flog Negroes . Fragment of Speech at Paris , Ill . September 8 , 1858 The Issue Between the Parties , and Justice the Bulwark of American Democracy . Fragments of Speech at Edwardsville , Ill ...
... Popular Sovereignty " the Right to Flog Negroes . Fragment of Speech at Paris , Ill . September 8 , 1858 The Issue Between the Parties , and Justice the Bulwark of American Democracy . Fragments of Speech at Edwardsville , Ill ...
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... Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sov- ereignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
... Popular sovereignty ! everlasting popular sov- ereignty ! Let us for a moment inquire into this vast matter of popular sovereignty . What is popular sovereignty ? We recollect that at an early period in the history of this struggle ...
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... popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the people ! What was squat- ter sovereignty ? I suppose if it had any significance at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sovereign in ...
... popular sovereignty . What is it ? Why , it is the sovereignty of the people ! What was squat- ter sovereignty ? I suppose if it had any significance at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sovereign in ...
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... sovereignty , but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory , and all the other men in the Territory may be ... popular sovereignty is given up . The seal is absolutely put down upon it by the court decision , and Judge Douglas ...
... sovereignty , but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory , and all the other men in the Territory may be ... popular sovereignty is given up . The seal is absolutely put down upon it by the court decision , and Judge Douglas ...
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... popular sovereignty . Again , when we get to the question of the right of the people to form a State constitution as they please , to form it with slavery or without slavery if that is anything new , I confess I don't know it . Has ...
... popular sovereignty . Again , when we get to the question of the right of the people to form a State constitution as they please , to form it with slavery or without slavery if that is anything new , I confess I don't know it . Has ...
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Página 155 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 35 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 105 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 211 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Página 222 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Página 224 - You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time...
Página 288 - 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 ; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Página 240 - 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...
Página 145 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 24 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.