Identifier: cu31924027042088 (find matches)
Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901. ed Hay, John, 1838-1905. joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
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Publisher: New York, F. D. Tandy Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ntain the rights ofthe States as they are guaranteed under the Con-stitution, and then we will have peace and har-mony between the different States and sectionsof this glorious Union. Fragment: Notes for Speeches, (Septemberi6?) 1858 I believe the declaration that all men arecreated equal is the great fundamental princi-ple upon which our free institutions rest. Thatnegro slavery is violative of that principle; butthat by our form of government that principlehas not been made one of legal obligation. Thatby our form of government the States whichhave slavery are to retain or disuse it, at theirown pleasure; and that all others—individuals,free States, and National Government—are con-stitutionally bound to leave them alone about it.That our government was thus framed becauseof the necessity springing from the actual pres-ence of slavery when it was formed. o l\ ^ o c f^ <; n cr 3 ^ o o 2 H B CO t Tj TO ^ ja Pi to 3 5 a-o tr crq 3 o c CD o a! O) H. 5 1—1 (TO Hz: a o 00 c/:( -1^
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1858) Speech at Charleston 89 Fourth Joint Debate at Charleston, Illi-nois, September 18, 1858 Mr. Lincolns Opening Speech. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It willbe very difficult for an audience so largeas this to hear distinctly what a speakersays, and consequently it is important that asprofound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderlygentleman called upon me to know whether Iwas really in favor of producing a perfect equal-ity between the negroes and white people.While I had not proposed to myself on this oc-casion to say much on that subject, yet as thequestion was asked me I thought I would oc-cupy perhaps five minutes in saying somethingin regard to it. I will say then that I am not,nor ever have been, in favor of bringing aboutin any way the social and political equality ofthe white and black races—that I am not, norever have been, in favor of making voters orjurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to holdoffice, nor to intermarry with white peo

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