On the recordAugust 15, 1855
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown and proclaim his subjects free republicans, sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
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Lincoln used a vivid comparison to emphasize the extreme unlikelihood that American slaveholders would ever voluntarily relinquish their human property.
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