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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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Select Orations Illustrating American Political History

Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 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 wofully...
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Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature ...

Adlai Ewing Stevenson - United States - 1909 - 518 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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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time

Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1909 - 406 pages
...Lincoln, in reply, after asserting their equality under the Declaration of Independence, added : " In the right to eat the bread, without the leave of...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Douglas often said — and he commanded the cheers of his supporters when he said it —...
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The American Missionary, Volume 63

Congregational churches - 1909 - 946 pages
...right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he (the Negro) is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." When the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Dred Scott, practically declared...
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The History of Political Theory and Party Organization in the United States

Simeon Davidson Fess - Political parties - 1910 - 466 pages
...admitted radical differences in the races, in physical, intellectual, and moral qualities, he declared: "In the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every livingman." Mr. Lincoln quoted Henry Clay as once saying of a class of men who would stifle all impulses...
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An Interview

Daniel Webster Church - Social problems - 1910 - 188 pages
...endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hands earn, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." For the idea that had been given him having associated itself in his mind with the conception...
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Addresses and Papers by Andrew S. Draper ...: 1909-1910

Andrew Sloan Draper - Education - 1910 - 208 pages
...the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, the negro is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." He showed no resentment and made no answer to the Senator's unjust and probably facetious...
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The period of development as a Nation

William Harrison Mace - United States - 1911 - 160 pages
...negro] is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowments. But, in the right to eat the bread, without...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." These debates made Lincoln widely known. He accepted invitations to speak in Ohio, New...
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Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 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 wofully...
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Selections from the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, whicn nis own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, .and the equal of every living man. „ . . REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES COMPARED (Extract from sixth joint debate...
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