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"Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery..." — Abraham Lincoln
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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View AllSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.— Abraham Lincoln
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.— Abraham Lincoln