Lincoln: "The Monstrous Injustice of Slavery" Abraham Lincoln had settled into his Illinois law practice in 1854 when the United States Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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slavery from its claims of 'moral right,' back upon its existing legal rights, and its arguments of 'necessity.' Let us return it to the position our fathers gave it; and therelet it rest in peace.
Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it.
Let North and South—let allAmericans—let all lovers of liberty everywhere—join in the great and good work.
If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved itas to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
We shall have so saved it that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up andcall us blessed, to the latest generations.
Source: The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches. MacArthur, Brian, ed.
Penguin Books, 1996.
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