 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 σελίδες
...negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...men are created equal/ We now practically read it i all men are created equal except negroes/ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, 'all... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 σελίδες
...Know-Nothing, — that is certain. How could I be '! How can any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 σελίδες
...the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing : that is certain. How could I be ? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of...people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that " all men are created equal." We now practically... | |
 | 1876 - 422 σελίδες
...inquire where I now stand? ... I am not a Know-Nothing ; that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor...me pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring 'all men are created equal ?' We now practically read it : ' All men are created equal, except negroes.... | |
 | 1887 - 726 σελίδες
...mind is made up. The slavery question can't be compromised." Five years later again (1855) he said : " As a nation we began by declaring that all men are created equal ; but we are degenerating, for now we practically read itall men are created equal, except negroes."... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1888 - 828 σελίδες
...question can't be compromised." In 1855, he said : " Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that all men arc created equal. We now practically read it all men are created equal except negroes" In his Ottawa... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 σελίδες
...the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could I bef How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people t Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 σελίδες
...that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favour of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 270 σελίδες
...that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favour of degrading classes 'of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 σελίδες
...the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of...white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically... | |
| |
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes... 
