 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 degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring...  The Catholic Record - Page 3121876Full view - About this book
 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 pages
...manifested itself in the Know Nothing movement. He told his friend Joshua Speed: I am not a Know Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who...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... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 pages
...themselves 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,... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 pages
...day and found his thoughts drifting to a gloomy speculation. "I am not a Know-Nothing," he begins: That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who...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... | |
 | Ward McAfee - 2004 - 258 pages
...me for that. I now do no more than oppose 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 the Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?41 Lincoln did not long remain in this... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 pages
...understanding and his strength. "I am not a Know-Nothing," he said. "How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? ... As a nation we began by declaring 'all men are created equal.' "We now practically read it: 'All... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - 2004 - 120 pages
...William Herndon, one of Lincoln's law partners and biographers CHAPTER 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 degrading classes of white people? Our progress... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...Northern cities. Lincoln had nothing but disdain for the discriminatory beliefs of the Know Nothings. "How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes,...be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" he queried his friend Joshua Speed. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...relative unknown, asked of former antislavery Whigs who now supported the Know-Nothings, "How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" Lincoln, referring to the Declaration of Independence's phrase about all men being created equal, went... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2006 - 292 pages
...of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could...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... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2006 - 280 pages
...movements, contextualized them in relation to the forces dnvo ing toward pluralism: "How 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... | |
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