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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government 1845-1861 United States -- Politics and government 1861-1865 Illinois -- Politics and government
Publisher: New York, F. D. Tandy Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e one is property,held rightfully, and the other is wrong, thenthere is no equality between the right andwrong; so that, turn it in any way you can, inall the arguments sustaining the Democraticpolicy, and in that policy itself, there is a care- 334 Abraham Lincoln (Oct. 13 ful, studied exclusion of the idea that there isanything wrong in slavery. Let us understandthis. I am not, just here, trying to prove thatwe are right and they are wrong. I have beenstating where we and they stand, and trying toshow what is the real difference between us; andI now can say that whenever we can get thequestion distinctly stated,—can get all thesemen who believe that slavery is in some of theserespects wrong to stand and act with us intreating it as a wrong,—then, and not till then,I think, will we in some way come to an end ofthis slavery agitation. Abraham Lincoln Reproduced from an Old Daguerreotype made about i8fi8, and /lo-zi- ill ihe possession of Major iniliani H. Lambert, of Philadelphia.
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1858) Reply at guincy 335 Mr. Douglass Reply in the Quincy Joint De-bate.LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Per-mit me to say that unless silence is ob-served it will be impossible for me tobe heard by this immense crowd, and my friendscan confer no higher favor upon me than byomitting all expressions of applause or approba-tion. I desire to be heard rather than to be ap-plauded. I wish to address myself to your rea-son, your judgment, your sense of justice, andnot to your passions. I regret that Mr. Lincoln should have deem-ed it proper for him to again indulge in grosspersonalities and base insinuations in regard tothe Springfield resolutions. It has imposed up-on me the necessity of using some portion of mytime for the purpose of calling your attentionto the facts of the case, and it will then be foryou to say what you think of a man who canpredicate such a charge upon the circumstanceshe has in this. I had seen the platform adoptedby a Republican congressional convention heldin Aurora, the sec

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