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" For one, I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever... "
Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Page 32
by Arthur Riss - 2006
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...that doctrine. I hold that this Government was established on the white basis. It was established by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity...should be administered by white men, and none others. But it does not follow, by any means, that merely because the negro is not a citizen, and merely because...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...— what I have said over and over again at home — that, in my opinion, this government was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity...forever, and should be administered by white men, and by none other whatsoever. Mr. Dooliltle. I will ask the honorable senator, then, why not give the territories...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...frankly, that in my opinion, this Government was made by our fathers on the white basis. It was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and was intended to be administered by white men in all time to come. But while I hold that under our Constitution...
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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas

James Washington Sheahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 566 pages
...— what I have said over and over again at home — that, in my opinion, this government was made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and shonld bo administered by white men, and by none other whatsocver. Mr. Doolitlk. I will ask the honorable...
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 236 pages
...doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - States' rights (American politics) - 1863 - 224 pages
...the doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that "this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." International If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach. ......
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Citizenship Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - Church and state - 1863 - 230 pages
...doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international If States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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Citizenship, Sovereignty

John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - Federal government - 1864 - 244 pages
...doctrine of our lamented Douglas, that " this [Federal] Government was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." international if States have an indubitable right to fix the status of their every Law to teach °...
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A Memorial of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States

Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 168 pages
...exclaimed as follows : — "I cheve this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." The Republican champion again took up the strain, as follows : — ' ' Henry Clay once said of a class...
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The Promises of the Declaration of Independence: Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln ...

Charles Sumner - African Americans - 1865 - 64 pages
...as follows : — " I believe this Government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever." The future President again took up the strain, as follows : — " Henry Clay once said of a class of...
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