| 11/19/1858 |
I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way. |
Topics: Slavery, Politics |
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| 11/20/1858 |
Douglas managed to be supported both as the best instrument to put down and to uphold the slave power; but no ingenuity can long keep these antagonisms in harmony. |
Topics: Slavery, Politics |
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| 11/20/1858 |
The fight must go on. We are right, and can not finally fail. |
Topics: Politics, Inspirational |
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| 11/20/1858 |
Another $blow-up$ is coming; and we shall have fun again. |
Topics: Politics |
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| 11/26/1858 |
It being my own judgment that the fight must go on, it affords me great pleasure to learn that our friends are nowhere dispirited. |
Topics: Politics, Inspirational |
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| 12/08/1858 |
I think we have fairly entered upon a durable struggle as to whether this nation is to ultimately become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest, it is nothing if I shall have contributed, in the least degree, to the final rightful result. |
Topics: Slavery, Politics |
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| 12/12/1858 |
I have an abiding faith that we shall beat them in the long run. Step by step the objects of the leaders will become too plain for the people to stand them. |
Topics: Politics, Inspirational |
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| 01/08/1859 |
His policy, which rigourously excludes all idea of there being any wrong in slavery, does lead inevitably to the nationalization of the Institution; and all who deprecate that consummation, and yet are seduced into his support, do but cut their own throats. |
Topics: Slavery, Politics |
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| 01/29/1859 |
Our friends here from different parts of the State, in and out of the Legislature, are united, resolute, and determined; and I think it is almost certain that we shall be far better organized for 1860 than ever before. |
Topics: Politics, Inspirational |
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| 02/11/1859 |
Is he [youth] not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future? |
Topics: America, Inspirational |
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