The Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln : Being Extracts From the Speeches, State Papers, And Letters of the Great President
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Our defence is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. And let me tell you, that all these things a...re prepared for you by the teach- ings of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision and all future decisions will be quietly acquiesced in by the people. — Speech at Edwardsville, III. ; September 13, 1858. T HOLD that the proposition [advanced by ■■■ Judge Douglas] that slavery cannot enter a new country without police regulations is historically false. It is not true at all. I hold that the history of this country shows that the institution of slavery was originally planted upon this continent without these "police regulations" which the judge now thinks 62 necessary for the actual establishment of it.
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