 Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.  Self Culture - Page 1961897Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 pages
...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 352 pages
...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 214 pages
..."all men are created equal." — Speech at Republican Banquet in Chicago; December 10, 1856. I PROTEST against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
 | William Trufant Foster - 1908 - 516 pages
...and sleep, and marry with negroes. He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that...have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In a debate on the proposition, "Japan should be the dominant power in the East for the next century,"... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 78 pages
...of freedom. Letter to Governor Hahn, Mar, 13, 1864, vol. X, p. 39. NEITHER SLAVE NOR WIFE I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. Speech at Springfield, Ill., June 2J ', vol. II, p. 329. 54 Abraham Lincoln SMALL CURES FOR GREAT SORES... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1908 - 432 pages
...in the homely words of Abraham Lincoln: "I do not understand that.be- ^x cause I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must/ necessarily want her for a wife." I CHAPTER XV THE REVOLT OF DOUGLAS Had anyone prophesied at the close of the year 1856, that within a... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1908 - 698 pages
...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year,... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1908 - 540 pages
...answer in the homely words of Abraham Lincoln: "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." CHAPTER XV THE REVOLT OF DOUGLAS Had anyone prophesied at the close of the year 1856, that within a... | |
 | William Passmore Pickett - 1909 - 614 pages
...and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of... | |
 | Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 412 pages
...their own, but his. And now he sees his own case standing next on the docket for trial. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that,...a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just let her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the... | |
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