Political Quotes

On the recordMay 19, 1856
I think it just to say that all true men North should sympathize with them, and ought to be willing to do any possible and needful thing to right their wrongs.
Said by
Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Speaking at a Republican meeting, Lincoln urges Northern men to sympathize with and act to correct the injustices faced by free-state settlers in Kansas.

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