Then you really believe that the principle which "our fathers who framed the government under which we live" thought so clearly right as to adopt it, and indorse it again and again, upon their official oaths, is in fact so clearly wrong as to demand your condemnation without a moment's consideration.
Lincoln challenged his Southern opponents to consider if they truly believed the founding fathers' stance on slavery was so wrong as to be dismissed without thought.
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