...my wife. I may want her for neither. I may simply let her alone. In some respects she is certainly not my equal. But in her natural right to eat the bread which she has earned by the sweat of her brow, she is my equal and the equal of any man." Now this...

...it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave,...have her for either. I can just leave her alone." 1 c. The method of residues, like that of the dilemma, is founded upon a division of the point in question...

...it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave,...have her for either. I can just leave her alone." 1 Illustrations from An Outline of Logic, by BH Bode. (Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1910.) SIXTH CHAPTER...

...his hands towards the stars of that still night," he proclaimed, " in some things she is certainly not my equal, but in her natural right to eat the bread that she has earned •with the sweat of her brow, she is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas,...

...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year,...

...position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [SW 1.636]' This language is carefully studied to avoid conflict with anything Lincoln was saying elsewhere....

...Emancipation Proclamation took the charge head on. "I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife," said Lincoln to the cheers and applause of the crowd. "My understanding is that I can just let her...

...ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 5, p. 537 (1953). 1702 I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, fourth debate with Senator Stephen...

...giving his interpretation of the Declaration of Independence. Speaking of a black woman, he explained, "In some respects she certainly is not my equal; but...any one else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others."90 It would be hard to express more vigorously the principle of the equality of all wage-earners...

...wife. He could just let her alone. He could let her alone so that she could also enjoy her freedom and "her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands." While Douglas (like the Supreme Court) emphatically denied that the Declaration of Independence applied...