I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate…

Abraham Lincoln
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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. ✨ Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854
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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. ✨ Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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