 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...favour of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me 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.' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 pages
...' all 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,...negroes and foreigners and Catholics/ When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving 3iberty —... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 pages
...of degrading classes 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 read it ' all men are created equal except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...any one, who abhors the oppression of the negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read,...negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to that, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty, —... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 pages
...than oppose the extension of slavery. 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.' I am not a KnowNothing; that's... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon, Chauncey Forward Black - 1872 - 604 pages
...of degrading classes 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 read it " all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | 1876 - 422 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 pages
...can't be compromised." In 1855, he said: "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." In his Ottawa speech of 1858,... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 800 pages
...be compromised." In 1855, he said : " 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." In his Ottawa speech of 1858,... | |
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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... 
