I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the s…

Abraham Lincoln
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction. ✨ David W. Bartlett, Abraham Lincoln (1860). The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, p.190
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