 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...condition ? I think I would not hold one in' slavery at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals V My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...condition ? I think 1 would not hold one in slavery at any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically arid socially our equals ? My own feelings will not admit of this ; and if mine would, we well know... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...'.; I think I wonld not hold one in slavery, nt any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and...if mine would, we well know that those of the great inas^ of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice unil sound judgment, is not... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Nova Scotia - 1861 - 328 pages
...the choice of the Eepublican party, said, in 1858, in a speech on the all-absorbing question :—" Make them politically and socially our equals? My...feelings will not admit of this; and, if mine would, we know that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice... | |
 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...think I would not hold one (a slave) in slavery at any rate ; yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and...our equals ? My own feelings will not admit of this ! " Again, when addressing the people at Chicago, July 10, 1858, he said, " I have always hated slavery,... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 462 pages
...condition. I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate; yet, the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them and...know that those of the great mass of white people would not. Whether this accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question, if, indeed,... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...condition ? / think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and...feelings will not admit of this ; and, if mine would, we all know that those of the great mass of white people would not. Whether this feeling accerds with... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 pages
...condition ? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and...would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...condition ? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next ? Free them, and...would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 184 pages
...from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through. • OTTAWA SPEECH, AUG. «, 1858. " My own feelings will not admit of this ; and if mine...not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and Democracy, because there is a section so directly opposed to it that they will not tolerate us in doing... | |
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What next ? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals ? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. 
