Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2012). The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition), p.567, Jazzybee Verlag

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