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" 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 read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes. "
An Anthology of the Epigrams and Sayings of Abraham Lincoln, Collected from ... - Page 42
by Abraham Lincoln - 1908 - 62 pages
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people '/ Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty —...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 pages
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...are created equal except negroes and foreigners and Catholies.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 pages
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...men are created equal/ We now practically read it i all men are created equal except negroes/ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, 'all...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 568 pages
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by 9eclaring that ' all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal...
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Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America from Washington to ...

John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...never heard of any attempt to unwhig me for that. I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...it, ' All men are created equal, except negroes.' I am not a KnowNothing; that's certain. How could I be? How can any one, who abhors the oppression...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ..., Volume 2

Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty, — to Russia,...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln: From His Birth to His Inauguration as ..., Volume 2

Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it conies to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,...
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The Catholic Record, Volume 10

1876 - 422 pages
...white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring 'all men are created equal ?' We now practically read...men are created equal, except negroes. ' When the Know- Nothings get control, it will read: 'All men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners...
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The Lawyer: The Statesman and the Soldier

George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 pages
...that time comes, my mind is made up. The slavery question can't be compromised." In 1855, he said: "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...read it all men are created equal except negroes." In his Ottawa speech of 1858, he read an extract from his speech at Peoria, made in 1854, in these...
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All the Year Round, Volume 39

1887 - 726 pages
...mind is made up. The slavery question can't be compromised." Five years later again (1855) he said : " As a nation we began by declaring that all men are created equal ; but we are degenerating, for now we practically read itall men are created equal, except negroes."...
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