Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1Century Company, 1894 - United States |
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Page 127
... kansas , Missouri , Illinois , Indiana , Ohio , Wisconsin , and Iowa . Now I suppose it will not be denied that these thirteen States are a little more interested in improvements on that great river than are the remaining seventeen ...
... kansas , Missouri , Illinois , Indiana , Ohio , Wisconsin , and Iowa . Now I suppose it will not be denied that these thirteen States are a little more interested in improvements on that great river than are the remaining seventeen ...
Page 182
... Kansas and Nebraska . Slavery already existed among the French at New Orleans , and to some extent at St. Louis . In 1812 Louisiana came into the Union as a slave State , without controversy . In 1818 or '19 , Missouri showed signs of a ...
... Kansas and Nebraska . Slavery already existed among the French at New Orleans , and to some extent at St. Louis . In 1812 Louisiana came into the Union as a slave State , without controversy . In 1818 or '19 , Missouri showed signs of a ...
Page 183
... Kansas and Nebraska . Whether there should or should not be slavery south of that line , nothing was said in the law . But Arkansas constituted the principal remaining part south of the line ; and it has since been admitted as a slave ...
... Kansas and Nebraska . Whether there should or should not be slavery south of that line , nothing was said in the law . But Arkansas constituted the principal remaining part south of the line ; and it has since been admitted as a slave ...
Page 186
... Kansas . Also , about a month after the introduction of the bill , on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , substantially , that the peo- ple who go and settle there ...
... Kansas . Also , about a month after the introduction of the bill , on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , substantially , that the peo- ple who go and settle there ...
Page 192
... Kansas and Nebraska - was to be organized ; and it is proposed , and carried , to blot out the old dividing line of thirty - four years ' standing , and to open the whole of that country to the intro- duction of slavery . Now this , to ...
... Kansas and Nebraska - was to be organized ; and it is proposed , and carried , to blot out the old dividing line of thirty - four years ' standing , and to open the whole of that country to the intro- duction of slavery . Now this , to ...
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Page 165 - 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...
Page 417 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 267 - 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...
Page 159 - 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.
Page 113 - The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.
Page 296 - 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.
Page 111 - Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Page 307 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that 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...
Page 424 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 238 - ... 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. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.