On the recordOctober 16, 1854
The spirit of mutual concession--that spirit which first gave us the Constitution, and has thrice saved the Union--we shall have strangled and cast from us for ever.
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At Peoria, Lincoln laments that the abandonment of mutual concession, vital to the nation's founding and preservation, would be a catastrophic loss.
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