 Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.  Lincoln and Herndon - Page 206by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1860 - 270 pages
...all who believe that •* our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood the question just, as well, and even better, than we do...fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 pages
...at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas said: " Our fathers, when they framed the government under which "we live, understood...just as well, and even better than •we do now." I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1860 - 250 pages
...Columbus, Ohio, as reported in "The New York Times," Senator Douglas said : ' w Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood...question just as well, and even better than we do now." 1 fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes... | |
 | 1860 - 138 pages
...Columbus, Ohio, as reported in The New York Times, Senator Douglas said : " Our fathers, when they framed the Government -under which we live, understood...question just as well, and even better than we do now." I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes... | |
 | Frederick Milnes Edge - 1860 - 250 pages
...Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas says : " ' Our fathers when they framed the Government under which we live, understood...question just as well and even better than we do now.' "I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it_because it furnishes... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1860 - 326 pages
...Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas said: — "Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood...question just as well, and even better, than we do now."^ I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. [Applause.] I so adopt it because... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 348 pages
...in the Judge's speech here, a short sentence in these words : " Our fathers, when they formed this Government under which we live, understood this question just as well and even better than we do now." That is true ; I stick to that- I will stand by Judge Douglas in that to the bitter end. And now, Judge... | |
 | 1860 - 266 pages
...ting that they ** understood the question just as well, and even better, than we do uow." But enough. Let all who believe that "our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood the question just as well, and even better, than we do now,'* speak as they spoke, and act as they... | |
 | 1860 - 270 pages
...asserting that they '* understood the question just as well, and even better, thau we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood the question just as well, and even better, than we do now,1' speak as they spoke, and act as they... | |
 | 1860 - 268 pages
...York Times," Senator Douglas said: ** Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we Uve, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now." I fully indorse this, and I adopt It as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because U furnishes... | |
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