 | 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... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - 2001 - 280 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... | |
 | Robert R. Mathisen - 2001 - 674 sayfa
...the expansion 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... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1995 - 188 sayfa
...condemned the discriminatory immigration and naturalization policies that the Know-Nothings advocated. "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal,'" he wrote. "We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes. ' When the Know-Nothings... | |
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 sayfa
...his friend Joshua Speed: 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... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - 2003 - 652 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 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... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 sayfa
...from Know-Nothings and join the Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln explained to a friend, "How can one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white men?" Between the determination of slaveholders to expand their institution and the bigotry of nativists,... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 sayfa
...Romanism," and found the Know-Nothings, even more than the Calhounites, a standing repudiation of what, "as a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equaL'" That had not prevented the Know-Nothings from trying to recruit him in 1854 as a state legislative... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 sayfa
...speculation. "I am not a Know-Nothing," he begins: 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... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 sayfa
...FIVE SPEECHES AND DEBATES "/ am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? 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. ..." — Abraham Lincoln, writing to his friend Joshua Speed "My first impulse... | |
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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... 
