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" But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. "
The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ... - Page 221
by David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 354 pages
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to hie, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the judge's charge that the quotation...
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Speeches and debates, 1856-1858

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 372 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies. The judge is woefully...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time: His Cause, His Character ..., Volume 2

Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 742 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in morals or intellectual endowment — but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man." In support of the rights and privileges of anti-slavery people and parties of all shades...
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National Ideals Historically Traced, 1607-1907

Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1907 - 448 pages
...Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, . . . perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." 8 1 Cf. Hart, Slavery and Abolition (Am. Nation, XVI.), passim. ' Tocqueville, Democracy...
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Stephen A. Douglas: A Study of the Attempt to Settle the Question of Slavery ...

Edward McMahon - 1907 - 248 pages
...equality between the negroes and whites; Lincoln denied that he believed this, "but in the right to eat bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his...earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas 1 Fhodes II, #328. 2 Lincoln and Douglas Debates, Í212-217, 280. and the equal of every living man."...
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1908 - 744 pages
...negro is not entitled to all the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living8 man. " I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the...
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Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume 3

Illinois - 1908 - 702 pages
...equal in many respects, — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living .man. [Great applause.] — T Now I pass on to consider one or two more of these little follies....
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Illinois - 1908 - 698 pages
...intellectual and moral endowments; but in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody eke, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every livings man." I have chiefly introduced this for the purpose of meeting the Judge's charge that the...
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Studies in the American Race Problem

Alfred Holt Stone - African Americans - 1908 - 588 pages
...words: "In the right to eat the bread which his own hand earns, without the leave of anybody else, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."J This right was guaranteed the Negro, as incident to his emancipation. But there follows...
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Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature ...

Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 684 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral and intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Referring to the quotation from his Springfield speech of the words, "A house divided...
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