"Let us have faith that Right makes Might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~












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