 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.  Complete Works - Stran 28avtor: Abraham Lincoln - 1894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 2003 - 260 strani
...Know-Nothing. . . . How could I be?" "When the KnowNothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes,...foreigners, and catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Thomas Maier - 2003 - 748 strani
...Bill of Rights, he warned, might be endangered. "When the Know-Nothings get control," Lincoln cracked, "It will read 'All men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners and Catholics.'" Within the Kennedys' own state of Massachusetts, the Know-Nothings were quite successful, electing... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 strani
...Romanism," and found the Know-Nothings, even more than the Calhounites, a standing repudiation of what, "as a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equaL'" That had not prevented the Know-Nothings from trying to recruit him in 1854 as a state legislative... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 strani
...The United States had Henry Wilson Library of Congress begun in 1776 with a declaration that all were equal. "We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes,' " lamented Lincoln. If nativists took over the government, he prophesied, "it will read 'all men are... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 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...foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 strani
...of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? ... As a nation we began by declaring aYK%U ` bqI ^ 6#L Catholics and Foreigners.' Then he added: "When it comes to this I shall prefer emigrating to some... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 strani
...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...foreigners, and catholics' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 strani
...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 strani
...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 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...foreigners, and catholics! When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
| |
