...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,...

...answer in the homely words of Abraham Lincoln: "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." CHAPTER XV THE REVOLT OF DOUGLAS Had anyone prophesied at the close of the year 1856, that within a...

...and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes...not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my equal ; but in her natural right to eat the bread she earns...

...offence not their own, but his. And now he sees his own case standing next on the docket for trial. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes...a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just let her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but in her natural right to eat the...

...speaking upon the same subject, he said, "I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." When Douglas proposed to settle the vexed question of slavery extension by "popular sovereignty," Lincoln...

...the remark that has been so well remembered, " I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." He then led Douglas a long chase about Douglas's criticisms of Senator Trumbull, and Douglas used his...

...position the negro must 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. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. ... I have never had the least apprehension that...

...is not wrong, nothing is wrong"; and again, "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife." Many of his argumentative illustrations are like ^Esop's fables. In his Cooper Institute speech he...

...position the negro must 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. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. ... I have never had the least apprehension that...

...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. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never...