 | Charles M. Hubbard - 2003 - 270 páginas
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "a// men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes.... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - 2004 - 240 páginas
...The United States had Henry Wilson Library of Congress begun in 1776 with a declaration that all were equal. "We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes,' " lamented Lincoln. If nativists took over the government, he prophesied, "it will read 'all men are... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - 1999 - 532 páginas
...Romanism," and found the Know-Nothings, even more than the Calhounites, a standing repudiation of what, "as a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equaL'" That had not prevented the Know-Nothings from trying to recruit him in 1854 as a state legislative... | |
 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - 2008 - 288 páginas
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners,... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 páginas
...of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? ... As a nation we began by declaring to love this countrv oo whose wife was Dutch, whose...son married a French woman, and whose present fou When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'All men are created equal except Negroes, and Catholics... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2006 - 945 páginas
...of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" he queried his friend Joshua Speed. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes. ' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 páginas
...during the decade prior to his becoming president. In 1855 Lincoln wrote the following in a letter, "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring, 'All men are created equal.' We now practically read it all men are created equal except Negroes. Blacks,... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 páginas
...phrase about all men being created equal, went on to say in characteristically pithy language that "We now practically read it 'all men are created equal except Negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read All men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 2006 - 292 páginas
...can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners... | |
 | Will Morrisey - 2005 - 294 páginas
...spoken of, brutes alone are contemplated." This is a falsehood. It is also the top of a slippery slope. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty...read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners,... | |
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes. 
