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Lincoln's first political action in regard to slavery . ] Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage ...
Lincoln's first political action in regard to slavery . ] Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session , the undersigned hereby protest against the passage ...
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Equality in society alike beats inequality , whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort or of the domestic slavery sort . We know Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us .
Equality in society alike beats inequality , whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort or of the domestic slavery sort . We know Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us .
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I think , and shall try to show , that it is wrong - wrong in its direct effect , letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska , and wrong in its prospective principle , allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men ...
I think , and shall try to show , that it is wrong - wrong in its direct effect , letting slavery into Kansas and Nebraska , and wrong in its prospective principle , allowing it to spread to every other part of the wide world where men ...
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If slavery did not now exist among them , they would not introduce it . ... Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were ...
If slavery did not now exist among them , they would not introduce it . ... Doubtless there are individuals on both sides who would not hold slaves under any circumstances , and others who would gladly introduce slavery anew if it were ...
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But all this , to my judgment , furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave - trade by law . The law which forbids the bringing of slaves from Africa ...
But all this , to my judgment , furnishes no more excuse for permitting slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave - trade by law . The law which forbids the bringing of slaves from Africa ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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