No wonder that the friends of freedom saw in this plain man of Illinois the proper standard-bearer of all the moral and political forces which could be united and wielded against the slave power.
Douglass explains why abolitionists recognized Abraham Lincoln as the ideal leader to unite moral and political forces against the slave power.
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