 | Jedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar - Law - 2008 - 288 pages
...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 ''all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell Jr., Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 843 pages
...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...equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.'" The basic anti-Americanism of the American Party's central issue caused it quickly to fade when another... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 944 pages
...people?" he queried his friend Joshua Speed. "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. ' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | Andrew E. Taslitz - Law - 2006 - 363 pages
..."all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all...foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Joshua Wolf Shenk - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 350 pages
...'all men are created equal' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes! When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read,...foreigners, and catholics! When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia,... | |
 | Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...their way. "Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid," he wrote to a close friend in 1855. "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'" Soon enough "it will read... | |
 | Will Morrisey - History - 2005 - 290 pages
...is also the top of a slippery slope. "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.' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 pages
...Fitzhugh, one might justly say, "Rest in peace." But consider these lines from an 1855 letter of Lincoln's: "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.'" Lincoln did not say the new... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 280 pages
...can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? ... As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' Now we practically read it as 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get... | |
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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... 
