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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 submitted tothe people, should be followed in all futurecases, and if he stands by that recommendationthere will be no division in the Democraticparty on that principle in the future. Hence 30 Stephen A. Douglas (Sept. 15 the great mission of the Democracy is to unitethe fraternal feeling of the whole country, re-store peace and quiet by teaching each State tomind its own business and regulate its own do-mestic affairs, and all to unite in carrying outthe Constitution as our fathers made it, and thusto preserve the Union and render it perpetualin all time to come. Why should we not actas our fathers who made the government?There was no sectional strife in Washingtonsarmy. They were all brethren of a commonconfederacy; they fought under a common flagthat they might bestow upon their posterity acommon destiny, and to this end they poured outtheir blood in common streams, and shared, insome instances, a common grave. John Brown JFuoii Engraviug from n Phulonnip/i h\ ./. //Black and Co.
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1858) Reply at Jonesboro 31 Mr. Lincoln s Reply in the Jonesboro JointDebate. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Thereis very much in the principles thatJudge Douglas has here enunciated thatI most cordially approve, and over which Ishall have no controversy with him. In so faras he has insisted that all the States have theright to do exactly as they please about all theirdomestic relations, including that of slavery, Iagree entirely with him. He places me wrongin spite of all I can tell him, though I repeatit again and again, insisting that I have madeno difference with him upon this subject. Ihave made a great many speeches, some ofwhich have been printed, and it will be utterlyimpossible for him to find anything that I haveever put in print contrary to what I now sayupon this subject. I hold myself under consti-tutional obligations to allow the people in allthe States, without interference, direct or indi-rect, to do exactly as they please, and I denythat I have any inclination to interfere wit

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