You are aware I detest slavery; and also you fully recognize brand new abstract wrong of it
You think thraldom is useful and really should feel offered; while we found it wrong and really should feel limited
The fresh new servant-breeders and you can servant-traders, try a little, odious and you can detested group, one of your; and yet in government, they influence the class of all of you, and are while the entirely the gurus, because you are who owns your own negroes. –August twenty-four, 1855 Page in order to Joshua Price
I do believe that it Regulators usually do not survive, forever half slave and you will 50 % of free . I really don’t expect the fresh new Connection is mixed — I don’t assume our house to-fall — however, I really do assume it will cease getting split up. –June 16, 1858 Domestic Split Speech
Today I admit me while the owned by one group on nation just who think about slavery since the a moral, public and you may political evil. –Oct 7, 1858 Argument from the Galesburg, Illinois
He [Stephen Douglas] try blowing the actual moral bulbs all around us, as he argues one whoever desires slaves have a directly to hold him or her; that he’s penetrating, as far as lies in his electricity, the human being soul, and you may eradicating the new white off reason as well as the passion for liberty, as he is during every way possible preparing the general public mind, because of the their big influence, to make the school off thraldom continuous and national. –October 7, 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the Galesburg, Illinois