 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - Orator - 1912 - 428 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. The Judge has read from my speech in Springfield in which I say that " a house divided... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - 1912 - 226 pages
...replied that he did not believe that the negro was his political and social equal. "But," he said, "in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Jxidge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." Douglas had said many times, "I do not care whether... | |
 | Daniel Webster Church - 1912 - 56 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." I see him now through the mist of years, tall, gaunt, and sad-faced, burdened with his... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 298 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." In this language Lincoln recognizes the fact that the Negro is conspicuously inferior... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 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... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...my 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...his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of every living man." Lincoln, the politician, was now speaking apostolic words of freedom. Putting polite... | |
 | Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...my 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...his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of every living man." Lincoln, the politician, was now speaking apostolic words of freedom. Putting polite... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 696 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."7 by insinuating that Lincoln and the Republican party favored negro equality, social as... | |
 | Roland Greene Usher - History - 1914 - 440 pages
...in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... In the right to eat the bread without the leave of...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." "To satisfy the Southerners," he said to a New York audience in 1859, "we must cease to... | |
 | 1921 - 690 pages
...Everything, even economic necessity, had to yield to the impact of the argument from the Declaration: "in the right to eat the bread, without the leave...the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man."1 This was a sentiment that went straight to the hearts of millions of common men throughout... | |
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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. 
