...Again, "We are making history rapidly"; again, "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong"; and again, "I do not understand that because I do not want a...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...

...the injustice and inequalities resting thereon. "I do not understand," said the greatest Kentuckian, "that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I necessarily want her for a wife. ... I am now in my fiftieth year and I certainly never have had a...

...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...

...trial. 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 let her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my...

...trial. 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 let her alone. In some respects she certainly is not my...

...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...seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes. I will add to this that I have never seen, to my knowledge,...

...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,...

...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...

...freedom: — " 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." "All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little,...

...Negro, for here the American is innately^ unfriendly to that race. In the Charleston debate he said : " I do not understand that because I do not want a negro...slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes. I will add to this that I have never...