 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1891 - 424 pages
...mode of presenting the facts, and the infrr. *no,t;s and observations following that presentation. In his speech last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported...said: " Our fathers, when they framed the Government tmder which we tin, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do nom." I fully... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - 1891 - 416 pages
...or rather point of departure, a short passage from one of Senator Douglas's speeches, as follows : "Our fathers, when they framed the government, under...question just as well, and even better than we do now." The question referred to by Douglas, he stated concisely as : " Does the proper division of local from... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1893 - 386 pages
...great and instant vogue throughout the older States of the Union. His theme was a saying of Douglas, " Our fathers when they framed the government under which we live understood the question (the question of slavery) just as well, and even better, than we do now." His speech was... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation. In his speech last autumn at Columbus, Ohio, as reported...said : Our fathers, when they framed the government tinder which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now. I f idly... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1894 - 462 pages
...Taking as a text some words that Judge Douglas had uttered at Columbus, Ohio, the previous autumn, — "Our fathers, when they framed the Government under...question just as well, and even better than we do now," — he proceeded to build up an argument to show that those fathers had occupied the very ground in... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...just as well and even better than we do now. But enough ! Let all who believe that " our fathers who framed the government under which we live understood...question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask, all Republicans desire,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 268 pages
...just as well and even better than we do now. But enough ! Let all who believe that " our fathers who framed the government under which we live understood...question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask, all Republicans desire,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 336 pages
...in the Judge's speech here, a short sentence in these words : " Our fathers, when they formed this government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than, we do now." That is true ; I stick to that. I will stand by Judge Douglas in that to the bitter end. And now, Judge... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 pages
...the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation. In his speech last autumn at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the "New- York Times," Senator Douglas said: 1 Originally Lincoln had been invited to lecture in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, but financial or other... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1894 - 532 pages
...said here that Lincoln took for his theme, that night, the saying of his old adversary, Douglas : " Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question [the question of slavery] just as well, and even better than we do now." This, as Lincoln said, gave... | |
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Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now. 
