...that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."2 This was by far the most explicit statement that he had yet made on the hazardous subject....

...that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...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...

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

...that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave T must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone." 2 This...

...inferences that are not warranted. I protest now and forever, against that counterfeit logic which presumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, I do necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I need not have her for either; but, as...

...NOR WIFE I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. Speech at Springfield, Ill., June 2J ',...

...else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In a debate on the proposition, "Japan...

...else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that, because I do not want a black woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my...

...perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro must be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...understanding is that I can just let her alone. ... I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law...

...was in his opening at Charleston that Lincoln let slip the remark that has been so well remembered, " I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...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...