...only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without...

...wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she is certainly not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal, and the equal of...

...Douglas's attempt to portray the Republicans as favoring racial amalgamation, protesting "against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife."154 Finally, he traced his belief in each man's right to control his own labor to the statement...

...registered his protest "against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife." In the Ottawa debate, he proclaimed that "anything that argues me into [Douglas's] idea of perfect...

...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year,...

...Emancipation Proclamation took the charge head on. "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife," said Lincoln to the cheers and applause of the crowd. "My understanding is that I can just let her...

...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [SW 1.636]' This language is carefully studied to avoid conflict with anything Lincoln was saying elsewhere....

...ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 5, p. 537 (1953). 1702 I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, fourth debate with Senator Stephen...

...giving his interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. Speaking of a black woman, he explained, "In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of...

...many with negroes. He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...need not have her for either, I can just leave her alone."28 Of course the problem was that while an individual could "leave the Negro alone," the American...