On the recordMay 19, 1856
By every principle of law, a negro in Kansas is free; yet the bogus legislature makes it an infamous crime to tell him that he is free!
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Speaking on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln condemns the "bogus legislature" for legally suppressing the truth of freedom.
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