 | Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 pages
..."Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid," he wrote to a close friend in 1855. "As a nation, we began by declaring that ''all men...read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes'" Soon enough "it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and Catholics'... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - 2006 - 241 pages
...Fitzhugh, one might justly say, "Rest in peace." But consider these lines from an 1855 letter of Lincoln's: "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men...read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'" Lincoln did not say the new reading was that of one section only — nonslaveholders throughout the... | |
 | Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 pages
...His 1855 letter to Joshua Speed reveals his disgust for slavery and other forms of discrimination: "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men...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, and foreigners,... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - 2006 - 377 pages
...of white-immigrant and black equality in the process of denouncing the nativist Know-Nothing Party: Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal except... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 pages
...can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? ... As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' Now we practically read it as 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | James Oakes - 2007 - 366 pages
...degenerate. Our "progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid," he told Joshua Speed in i855. "We began by declaring that 'all men are created equal. "We now practically read it as 'all men are created equal, except for negroes.'"** For Lincoln human equality was a moral principle;... | |
 | Joseph P. Viteritti - 2009 - 294 pages
...immigrants to vote and hold office. Abraham Lincoln sized up the Know-Nothings accurately in 1855: "As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now read it, 'all men are created equal except Negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read,... | |
 | Scott Gac - 2008 - 326 pages
...Charles Seward and Abraham Lincoln abandoned their sinking ship for the newly formed Republican Party. "As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal,'" said Lincoln. "Now we practically read it as 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the... | |
 | Robert H. Zieger - 2007 - 312 pages
..."As a nation we began by declaring 'all men are created equal.'" Defenders of slavery insisted that "we now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'" And if the anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigots had their way, it would "read 'all men are created equal,... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - 2007 - 116 pages
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white peopk? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...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 and foreigners... | |
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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. 
