I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong…

Abraham Lincoln
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. ✨ Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864
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