...extent, a total destruction of selfgovernment, to say that he too shall not govern himself*. . . . If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches...connection with one man's making a slave of another. (Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854) " With his deft political sense, and with his arts as...

...charged that slavery violated the self-governing principles found in the Declaration of Independence. "When the white man governs himself that is self-government;...self-government - that is despotism. If the negro is a w#«," Lincoln asserted, "why then my ancient faith teaches me that 'all men are created equal.'" No...

...self-government is right, absolutely and eternally right," said Lincoln, but that was not the point. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government; that is despotism." Wherever they spoke crowds came; thousands of people poured into small prairie towns. Perhaps they...

.... ," New York Tones Magazine, April 8, 1962, p. 28. 31. "We hold with Abraham Lincoln, that '. . . when the white man governs himself, that is self-government,...is more than self-government — that is despotism Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain...

...Is not slavery "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;...more than self-government — that is despotism." Popular sovereignty thus became a means for ending some men's freedom. It could be argued, in reply,...

...self-government is right, absolutely and eternally right," says Lincoln, but that is not the point. "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government;...is more than self-government; that is despotism." Lincoln puts the issue in words that everyone can understand. He has none of the anger of the abolitionists;...

...response declared that the American protection of self-government was an individual not a collective one: "When the white man governs himself . . . that is...man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism."21 The issue of individual political freedom was not at stake for residents of the Southern...

...eternally right." but denied that it had any "just application as here attempted." He argued, however, that "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." No man was "good enough to govern another man, without that other's...

...argued that "it has no just application" to slavery. "When the white man governs himself," he asserted, "that is self-government; but when he governs himself,...connection with one man's making a slave of another." While it did not matter to Douglas what the people of Kansas decided, so long as they had the right...

...government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government — that is despotism. If the Negro is a man, why then...connection with one man's making a slave of another. (Lincoln, 1940d, p. 362) Later in that same speech, he demonstrates his skill in argument. When responding...