 Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not.  Meliora - Page 651861Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1860 - 280 pages
...that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if, indeed,...any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 pages
...that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed,...any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely disregarded. We can not, then, make them equals. It does seem to me... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 348 pages
...sole question, if, indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does eeem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted ; but for their tardiness in this,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 572 pages
...all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation...in this, I will not undertake to judge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, not greedily,... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1861 - 560 pages
...all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation...for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to jndge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1861 - 328 pages
...that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question, if, indeed, it is any part of it. A universal fesling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals." With... | |
 | Orville James Victor - 1862 - 554 pages
...If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. * * It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation...for their tardiness in this, I will not undertake to jndge our brethren in the South. " When they remind us of their Constitutional rights, I acknowledge... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - 1865 - 462 pages
...know that those of the great mass of white people would not. Whether this accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question, if, indeed, it is any part of it. An universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1889 - 370 pages
...that those of the great mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question, if, indeed,...any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We cannot, then, make them equals. It does seem to me that... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 pages
...not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough to me to denounce people upon. them equals. It does seem to me that systems of gradual...tardiness in this, I will not undertake to judge our people of the South. When they remind us of their constitutional rights, I acknowledge them, fully... | |
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