The Abolitionists; Together With Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights, 1830-1864
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It did more to encourage the I40 The Abolitionists supporters of slavery and to discourage its oppo- nents than anything else that ever happened. Its restoration would undoubtedly have produced a similar effect. Although he is not to be credited with any philanthropic motive, Stephen A. Douglas did an effective work for freedom when he helped to overthrow that measure. Leading Abolitionists have accorded him that meed of praise. But there was that proposition which Mr. Lincoln was so fond of re...peating, that the nation could not remain half free and half slave — "a divided house" — but the remedy he had to propose was not manu- mission at any proximate or certain time, but the adoption of a policy that, to use his own words, would cause "the public mind to rest in the belief that it [slavery] was in the course of ultimate extinc- tion. ' ' Practically that meant very little or nothing. What the public mind then needed was not "rest," but properly directed activity. But the declarations above quoted were all before Mr.
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