Tag: Joshua F. Speed

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  August 9, 2019

  Abraham Lincoln Letter to Joshua F. Speed lays into Anti-Immigrant Nativist Party ‘Know-Nothing’

  Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that “all men are created equal. We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1855 ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO JOSHUA F. SPEED AUGUST 24, 1855 “I am not a Know-Nothing. That…