Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who con…

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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Rodney O. Davis, Douglas Lawson Wilson (2008). The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, p.193, University of Illinois Press
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