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... The North American Review - Sayfa 285editör: - 1926Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 sayfa
...IMMIGRANTS I am not a Know-Nothing [anti-immigrant]. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24,1855, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2, p.... | |
| Robert Allen Rutland - 1996 - 298 sayfa
...connection, saw a big difference between the antislavery partisans and the Know-Nothings. "How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" he asked. "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically... | |
| Carl Sandburg - 1996 - 324 sayfa
...progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid," he wrote Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855. "As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal except... | |
| Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 sayfa
...solely for native-born white Protestants. "How could I be a Know-Nothing?" I asked. "How can anyone 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... | |
| John J. Miller - 1998 - 312 sayfa
...an 1855 letter, he wrote: "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... | |
| Paul M. Zall - 2003 - 220 sayfa
...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...white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "a// men are created equal." We now practically... | |
| Philip Perlmutter - 1999 - 356 sayfa
...well noted by Lincoln, who denounced Know-Nothingism in a letter of 24 August 1855: "How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ... as a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it,... | |
| David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 sayfa
...LETTER TO JOSHUA F. SPEED, AUGUST 24, 1855 I am not a Know-Nothing. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of...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."... | |
| Lowell Harrison - 2000 - 346 sayfa
...more than to oppose the extension of slavery." Certainly he was not a Know-Nothing. "How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor...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... | |
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