...producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people." Lincoln then answered that question: "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been...and political equality of the white and black races Iapplausel." He also said he opposed "making voters or jurors of negroes" or allowing intermarriage...

...seemed to voice the collective view of the group at a property owners' meeting when he proclaimed, "I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing...social and political equality of the white and black race." Ibid., 106-10, 119 (quotation), 120-22. in. For the quotation from Chicago Defender, see Tuttle,...

...it."73 During a debate with Stephen Douglas on September 18, 1858, Lincoln stated that he was never "in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."74 He was opposed to ever making voters or jurors of black people or ever allowing them to hold...

...Nor was he, as we've been led to believe, always a champion of blacks. Au contraire. He once boasted: "I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, not of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people." Before the outbreak of...

...his opening speech in his fourth joint debate at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858, he said: I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of the bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that...

...was asked me, I thought I would occupy, perhaps, five minutes, in saying something in regard to it. I will say then, that I am not nor ever have been...not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them marry with white people....

...in 1858. Keep in mind that the following words are those of Abraham Lincoln: "l will say then that l am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about...equality of the white and black races •• that l am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them...

...Debating with the hard-hitting, up front racist Douglas in Charleston, Lincoln found himself saying: "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing...and political equality of the white and black races ... I am not nor ever 15. Donald, Lincoln, p. 201 16. Donald, Lincoln, p. 207 have been in favor of...

...ugliness of the words, let her or him substitute in the above paragraph any ethnic group for blacks: I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing...the social and political equality of the white and Irish (Jewish, Italian, Hispanic, German, Chinese, whatever1 races. How did Lincoln, who, according...

...his seven debates with Douglas to refuting this charge: "I am not, nor ever have been," he argued, "in favor of bringing about in any way the social...and political equality of the white and black races. ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them...