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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46 Quotes

“I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.”