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Lincoln was on record
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all over the place as saying such things
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as he had in 1859.
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I quote him."Republicans believe that
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slavery is wrong
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and they insist and will continue to insist upon a national policy
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which recognizes it and deals with it as a wrong.
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There can be no letting down on this."
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It's reasonably clear language.
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This is Matthew Brady's famous photographs that he took
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on the day of Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech in New York,
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the speech that introduced lincoln to the East