Abraham Lincoln rejects black equality with white Americans.

Date
Aug 23, 1858
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Abraham Lincoln
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

"Mr. Lincoln's Reply," Chicago Tribune, Vol. 12, no. 144 (August 23, 1858): 1

Scribe/Publisher
Chicago Daily Tribune
People
Abraham Lincoln
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects--certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. [Great applause].

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