 | John Quincy Adams - Massachusetts - 1842 - 76 pages
...disclaimic all pretension to the great principles of civil liberty. It traves-:, ties the self-evident truth of the Declaration of Independence^ that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creato], with certain inalienable rights, into a mere declaration that all men, "when... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - Slavery - 1864 - 354 pages
...for life descending to the offspring." , He also asserts that the truths which lie at the foundation of the Declaration of Independence, " that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1865 - 736 pages
...Stephens, but not as it is invariably and erroneously quoted. He was replying to the very absurd dogma of the Declaration of Independence, that ' all men are created equal ;' and asserted that, on the contrary, inequality is the law of Nature, and that the inferiority of one race... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 568 pages
...without any appeal to his preferences. On the other hand, Mr. Lincoln placed himself on the broad ground of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, and are by heaven endowed with certain inalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...without any appeal to his preferences. On the other hand, Mr. 'Lincoln placed himself on the broad ground of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, and are by heaven endowed with certain inalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.... | |
 | Emery E. Childs - United States - 1885 - 268 pages
...Massachusetts, as its national candidates. As in 1856, so now, the Republicans emphasized the gospel of the Declaration of Independence that " all men are created equal," and denounced as dangerous heresy this new dogma of the Southerners, and deprecated the threats of disunion... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - New York (State) - 1888 - 668 pages
...styled " The American Society for the Promotion of National Union." They denounced the seminal doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, that " all men are created equal," and said : " Four millions of immortal beings, incapable of self-care, and indisposed to industry and foresight,... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 806 pages
...that in such a movement could be gathered every citizen who in his heart believes the grand principles of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, and that governments derive their just powers only from the consent of the governed. It matters not what... | |
 | James Fowler Rusling - Generals - 1899 - 452 pages
...that injustice and oppression do not pay— or, in other words, in the simple but sublime phraseology of the Declaration of Independence, that 'all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuitof happiness.'... | |
 | Ellwood Wadsworth Kemp - History - 1902 - 560 pages
...April, 1865, a vastly greater principle to fight for, namely, a Union based upon the immortal principle of the Declaration of Independence, that "All men are created equal," and should have the inalienable right to pursue life, liberty and happiness unhindered. The South too felt... | |
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Lincoln placed himself on the broad ground of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, and are by heaven endowed with certain inalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 
