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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of negroes in chains were taken fromBaltimore across the country, or shipped on vessels to southern ports.Steamboats descending the Mississippi River transported other gangsfrom ^Missouri and Kentucky to the greatest of all markets—New Or-leans. Durinir the days when Abraham Lincoln was floating down the Mis-sissippi on a flat-boat, Congress passed a law imposing a duty on cottongoods manufactured in other countries. The law was opposed by theslave-holders of South Carolina. They regarded it as damaging to theirinterests, for England manufactured far more cotton cloth and yarnthan was produced by Massachusetts and Rhode Island. More shipssailed from Charleston for Liverpool loaded with cotton than for Boston.The planters of that State determined to pay no attention to the law,but to do as they pleased. Under the clause in the Constitution of theUnited States which counted slaves in the basis of representation inCongress, and through the rapid increase of slaves, the institution had
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A CITIZEN OF ILLINOIS. 53 become a great political power, cijiitrolling the (Tovernment. Good men—doctors of divinity, judges, senators, meml>ers of Congress—men hon-ored and respected, saw no moral wrong in holding negroes as slaves.There always had been slaves. In Bible times, Moses, Avho gave lawsto the childien of Isiael, established statutes relating to bondmen.Abraham had bond-servants. There were slaves in the time of Christand the apostles. Paul told the slaves of his time that they must beobedient to their masters. If it was right to hold slaves in those days,where was the wrong in holding them in the United States in the year1S8(»^ Was it not a beneficent institution, divinely ordained by Al-migiity (4od for the l)est welfare of the human race? So reasoned menrenowned foi feaining. A young man. born in Newburv)>ort. AFass., was setting type in anewspaper office in Baltimore. He did not agree Avith the geneial sen-timent in regard to slavery. He saw a gang of slave

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