 This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.  Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 177by William Gardner - 1905 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - 1860 - 326 pages
...slavery, and the black race. This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro,...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - 1860 - 348 pages
...slavery or the black race, and this is the whole of it ; any thing that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastical arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse.... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...of slavery or the black race, and this is the whole of it; anything thft argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastical arrangement of words by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnuthorse. I... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 pages
...of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fastastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horsechestnut to be a chestnut horse. I... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a spc-cious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut-horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose,... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 pages
...to what he regarded as common misconceptions. 'Anything,' he said, ' that argues me into the idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro,...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to he a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose,... | |
 | Harry A. Lewis - 1887 - 534 pages
...to what he regarded as common misconceptions. "Anything," he said, "that argues me into the idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse, I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose,... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...but only "equal in certain inalienable rights." "Anything that argues me into his [Douglas's] idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. ... I have no purpose to produce political and social equality... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...may be " conscientious " on the subject,^, ~1Lt-^t<r. . . Aliything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 pages
...of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro...fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose,... | |
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