...men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.110 It is tempting but misleading to conclude that the American identification with equal...

...catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1 855, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 2,...

...Catholics. ' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."48 Too Big to Cry A few minutes after the Illinois legislature elected Stephen A. Douglas...

...men are created equal, except negroes. ' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all man are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners,...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy."12 Here the threat of despotism, the keynote at Peoria, is closely associated with a concern...

...catholics. ' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." See Lincoln, pgs. 105—6. 47. Quoted in David M. Kennedy, "Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?"...

...Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy." That same year, 'fifty-five, an unsigned article in the Richmond Examiner forcibly caught...

...this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic!]. (Basier 1953, 2: 323) Lincoln does not appear to have uttered these sentiments publicly,...

...this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy. 10 As their party disintegrated, many Whigs drifted to the Know Nothings or new American...

...equal." 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,...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.94 As "the almost chosen people," the American citizenry had seen itself on a divine mission...

...equal " 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,...despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.59 The key to the then disputed questions of constitutional interpretation depended upon...