...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...

...promptly discovered a loophole in the trap, or a third harmless horn of the dilemma, and replied : " Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes...have her for either. I can just leave her alone." 1 All of the five different methods, explained here, for evading traps set by one's opponent may, at...

...equal of every living man. As to intermarriage, 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. And I have no fears that I or that any of my friends...

...fears of white audiences, Lincoln responded: "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,...

...marry 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...

...marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against that counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I...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...

...wanted "to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes!" Lincoln ridiculed the "counterfeit logic that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave...have her for either, I can just leave her alone." Slavery, he charged, was "the greatest source of amalgamation." Hence he favored "separation of the...

...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,...