I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it beca…

Abraham Lincoln
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I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity. ✨ Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854
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