You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of …

Abraham Lincoln
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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2009). The Portable Abraham Lincoln, p.80, Penguin
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