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 American Bible - Page 112edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 pages
...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...equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving... | |
| David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...phrase about all men being created equal, went on to say in characteristically pithy language that "We now practically read it 'all men are created equal...equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.'" The basic anti-Americanism of the American Party's central issue caused it quickly to fade when another... | |
| Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 pages
...during the decade prior to his becoming president. In 1855 Lincoln wrote the following in a letter, "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring, 'All men are created equal.' We now practically read it all men are created equal except Negroes. Blacks,... | |
| Joshua Wolf Shenk - 2005 - 372 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...equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics! When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving... | |
| Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 pages
...spoken of, brutes alone are contemplated." This is a falsehood. It is also the top of a slippery slope. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 2006 - 292 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...equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving... | |
| 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...equal except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.'" If this occurred, he preferred to emigrate to "some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty."268... | |
| 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 - 224 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... | |
| 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... | |
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