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AMONG NG the many papers assiduously preserved by his secretaries Nicolay and Hay is this fragment in Lincoln's handwriting summing up his early views on slavery . FRAGMENT Circa July , 1854 HE ant who has toiled and dragged a TH crumb ...
AMONG NG the many papers assiduously preserved by his secretaries Nicolay and Hay is this fragment in Lincoln's handwriting summing up his early views on slavery . FRAGMENT Circa July , 1854 HE ant who has toiled and dragged a TH crumb ...
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The slave - breeders and slave- traders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes .
The slave - breeders and slave- traders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you , and are as completely your masters as you are the master of your own negroes .
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Union could not stand half slave and half free " ; and also what I meant when I said " a house di- vided against itself could not stand " is received and I very cheerfully answer it as plainly as I may be able .
Union could not stand half slave and half free " ; and also what I meant when I said " a house di- vided against itself could not stand " is received and I very cheerfully answer it as plainly as I may be able .
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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