ful, studied exclusion of the idea that there is anything wrong in slavery. Let us understand this. I am not, just here, trying to prove that we are right and they are wrong. I have been stating where we and they stand, and trying to show what is the real difference between us; and I now can say that whenever we can get the question distinctly stated, can get all these men who believe that slavery is in some of these respects wrong to stand and act with us in treating it as a wrong,-then, and not till then, I think, will we in some way come to an end of this slavery agitation.

Abraham Lincola

Reproduced from an Old Daguerreotype made about 1858, and now in the possession of Major William II. Lambert, of Philadelphia.