When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than selfgovernment — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are... Our New Departure - Página 5por Moorfield Storey - 1901 - 43 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 694 páginas
...right — absolutely and eternally right — but it has no just application as here attempted. . . . When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...more than self-government, — that is despotism." Moreover, the Dred Scott decision had sapped out of the doctrine of popular sovereignty all the vitality... | |
| Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 718 páginas
...is right—absolutely and eternally right—but it has no just application as here attempted. . . . When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government,—that is despotism." Moreover, the Dred Scott decision had sapped out of the doctrine... | |
| 1914 - 428 páginas
...a man is it not the destruction of self-government to say that he shall not govern himself? When a white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and another man, that is more than self-government, it is despotism. No man is good enough to govern another... | |
| 1915 - 1002 páginas
...hours' pay And vote for the thing on election day, And will not understand. LINCOLN AND DEMOCRACY. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be It my proudest... | |
| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - 1916 - 388 páginas
...with Abraham Lincoln that : "No man is good enough to govern another without that other's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is selfgovernment;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Our reliance is in the laws of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which... | |
| George A. Malcolm - 1916 - 824 páginas
...the tendency of the United States been to extend territorial dominion beyond intervenother's consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...more than self-government — that is despotism." m Every man, they argue, is entitled by natural law to be governed by the voice of ing seas, opportunities... | |
| 1916 - 804 páginas
...an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of the citizen. When a ... man governs himself, that is self-government. But when he governs himself and also- governs some other man, that is worse than self-government — that is despotism. What I do mean to say is... | |
| Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 páginas
...to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself ? When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government — that is despotism. Douglas had insisted, and very logically, that by the terms of the new legislation, it was a matter... | |
| T. Aaron Levy - 1918 - 252 páginas
...gantlet of debate on the conquering doctrine of popular sovereignty: "When the white man," he said, "governs himself, that is self-government, \ but when...himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me... | |
| William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 468 páginas
...another man without that other's consent" applies the principle of democracy to the fact of slavery. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...more than self-government — that is despotism." Finally, the Dred Scott case brought the slavery issue to a climax, for in that decision it was evident... | |
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