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Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2

CHAPTER VIII
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He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
The Democratic policy in regard to that institution will not tolerate the merest breath, the slightest hint, of the least degree of wrong about it.

Try it by some of Judge Douglas's arguments.

He says he "don't care whether it is voted up or voted down" in the Territories.

I do not care myself, in dealing with that expression, whether it is intended to be expressive of his individual sentiments on the subject, or only of the national policy he desires to have established.

It is alike valuable for my purpose.


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