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The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the ... - Page 142
by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1912 - 284 pages
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The Ultimate Solution of the American Negro Problem

Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 294 pages
...is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)

Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Lincoln and Slavery

Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right 32 to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree that he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Lincoln and Slavery

Albert Enoch Pillsbury - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 112 pages
...and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree that he is not 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 of anybody else,...
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The Ultimate Solution of the American Negro Problem

Edward Eggleston - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 298 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not 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 of anybody else,...
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Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War

Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence— the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree, with Judge Douglas, he is not my equal in many respects—certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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Abraham Lincoln

Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...equal in many respects — certainly not in colour, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, \J he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man." This much-quoted...
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Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War

Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 696 pages
...happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree, with Judge Douglas, he is not 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 of anybody else,...
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The Fifth Reader

Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - Readers - 1914 - 308 pages
...rights [named] in the Declaration of Independence ... I agree with 225 Judge Douglas, he [the 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 leave of anybody...
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The Presidency of James Buchanan

Elbert B. Smith - United States - 1975 - 252 pages
...not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I hold...these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual...
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