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... slav- ery shall or shall not exist within their limits . Doctor Hope will there find my answer to the question he propounded to me before I com- menced speaking . Of course no man will con- sider it an answer , who is outside of the ...
... slav- ery shall or shall not exist within their limits . Doctor Hope will there find my answer to the question he propounded to me before I com- menced speaking . Of course no man will con- sider it an answer , who is outside of the ...
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... slav- ery question . His argument , therefore , that slavery is the only question that has ever created dissention in the Union falls to the ground . It is true that agitators are enabled now to use this slavery question for the purpose ...
... slav- ery question . His argument , therefore , that slavery is the only question that has ever created dissention in the Union falls to the ground . It is true that agitators are enabled now to use this slavery question for the purpose ...
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... slav- ery shall or shall not exist within their limits . The point upon which Chief Justice Taney ex- presses his opinion is simply this , that slaves , be- ing property , stand on an equal footing with other 1858 ] 83 Rejoinder at Alton.
... slav- ery shall or shall not exist within their limits . The point upon which Chief Justice Taney ex- presses his opinion is simply this , that slaves , be- ing property , stand on an equal footing with other 1858 ] 83 Rejoinder at Alton.
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... practically , that you cannot carry slavery where the people do not want it . All you have a right to ask is that the people shall do as they please ; if they want slav- ery , let them have it ; if they do 84 [ Oct. 15 Stephen A. Douglas.
... practically , that you cannot carry slavery where the people do not want it . All you have a right to ask is that the people shall do as they please ; if they want slav- ery , let them have it ; if they do 84 [ Oct. 15 Stephen A. Douglas.
Página 85
... slav- ery , we ought not to interfere with the people of each State . What right have we to interfere with slavery any more than we have to interfere with any other question ? He says that this slavery question is now the bone of ...
... slav- ery , we ought not to interfere with the people of each State . What right have we to interfere with slavery any more than we have to interfere with any other question ? He says that this slavery question is now the bone of ...
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Página 45 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 174 - 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 142 - 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 180 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Página 144 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and 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 because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Página 294 - ... understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
Página 35 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 364 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Página 144 - 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 287 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.