The foreign slave-trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived, without restriction, in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.
In his first inaugural, Lincoln predicted that secession would lead to the revival of the foreign slave trade in one section and the complete refusal to return fugitive slaves in the other.
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Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?
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