 | William E. Gienapp - 2002 - 260 páginas
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 | Henry Withers - 2003 - 200 páginas
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 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Melvin E. Page - 2003 - 406 páginas
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 | Abraham Lincoln - 2003 - 906 páginas
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 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 páginas
...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;... | |
 | Linda S. Bishai - 2004 - 194 páginas
...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... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 páginas
...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... | |
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But if the Negro is a man, is it not 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; but when he governs himself and also governs another man,... 
