 I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How 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...  The Catholic Record - Page 3121876Full view - About this book
 | Emanuel Hertz - 1927 - 774 pages
...in his striking letter to his boyhood friend, Joshua F. Speed, on August 24, 1855, in which he says: "I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...of anyone attempting to un-Whig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 790 pages
...no Wrhigs, and that I am an Abolitionist. ... I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-nothing; that is certain. How could...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... | |
 | 1927 - 666 pages
...no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. ... I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing; that is certain. How could...white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men arc created equal!" We now practically... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 518 pages
...of any one attempting to un-Whig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a KnowNothing, that is certain. How could...any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favour of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me pretty rapid.... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 526 pages
...that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favour of degrading classes of white people? Our progress...me 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... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - Political Science - 1979 - 414 pages
...Yet there were some things of which he was certain. "I am not a Know-Nothing. . . . How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" and he abhorred KansasNebraska from the depths of his soul: "I look upon that enactment not as a law,... | |
 | Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce - Current events - 1924 - 890 pages
..."Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid" no Whigs, and that I am an Abolitionist. "I am not a Know-Nothing; that is certain. How could...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, except Negroes.'... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...Know-Nothing, party, to which many former Whigs were turning. "I am not a Know-Nothing," he concluded. ". . . How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression...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... | |
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