 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 strani
...negroes be in favour of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that...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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 strani
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people '/ 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 574 strani
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 strani
...any one who abhors the oppression of the negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people ? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...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, 'all... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 568 strani
...any one who abhors the oppression of the 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 9eclaring that ' all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 strani
...never heard of any attempt to unwhig me for that. I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...it, ' All men are created equal, except negroes.' I am not a KnowNothing; that's certain. How could I be? How can any one, who abhors the oppression... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 strani
...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...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... | |
 | 1876 - 422 strani
...white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me 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. ' When the Know- Nothings get control, it will read: 'All men are created equal, except negroes and... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 strani
...say anything about it in the free States, because it is not here. You must not say anything about it in the slave States, because it is there. You must...must think real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because... | |
 | 1887 - 726 strani
...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."... | |
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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. 
