On the recordAugust 24, 1855
I look upon that enactment, not as a law, but as a violence from the beginning.
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In a letter to his friend Joshua Speed, Lincoln condemns the Kansas-Nebraska Act, asserting that it was fundamentally an act of aggression rather than legitimate legislation.
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