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 281editör: - 1926Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 sayfa
...bet er than I do of the slavery extensionists. . . . Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all me i are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get cor trol, it will read 'all men... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 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 "all men are created equal." We now practically... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1312 sayfa
...about Americans who abhorred the oppression of Negroes but were "degrading classes of white people": As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all nen are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all nen are... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 sayfa
...Whigs were turning. "I am not a Know-Nothing," he concluded. ". . . 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 'all men are created equal.' We now practically... | |
| Thomas Gustafson - 1992 - 500 sayfa
...Lincoln again condemns the degeneration that had turned the language of the Revolution into a Newspeak: "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men...now practically read it 'all men are created equal, extept negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except... | |
| Tyler Anbinder - 1992 - 358 sayfa
...friend Joshua Speed in 1855: I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone 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... | |
| Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - 1993 - 380 sayfa
...time, he felt unable to join with the "know-nothings." "How could I ... ?" he wrote. "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... | |
| Peter W. Schramm, Bradford P. Wilson - 1993 - 286 sayfa
...privately made clear his views: 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. . . . When the Know-Nothings get control, [the Declaration of Independence] will... | |
| David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 sayfa
...Whigs. Certainly, he explained to Speed, he was not a Know Nothing. "How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" The United States began with the declaration that all men are created equal; it now was practically... | |
| John D. Skrentny - 1996 - 332 sayfa
...denied allegiance to the racist doctrines of a group called the Know-nothings, and wrote: 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... | |
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