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and come back with one passage showing
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that he was a white supremacist."
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Now, growing up a Lincoln lover, and I thought
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"Oh, dear." That's like you've been raised
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in a certain religion and somebody says go read
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the Bhagavad-Gita or read the Koran or study Buddhism for a while.
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I did that too for a while; I didn't learn much but--.
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And sure enough you can find all those extremes
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in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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We also know, of course, that he was a free soiler
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and he's most famous in the South, of course, for that language of
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"Putting slavery on a course of ultimate extinction"