The other way is for us to surrender, and let Judge Douglas and his friends have their way, and plant slavery over all the States,--cease speaking of it as in any way a wrong--regard slavery as one of the common matters of property, and speak of our negroes as we do of our horse and cattle.
Lincoln presents the alternative to restricting slavery as a complete national surrender to its expansion, leading to its acceptance as a mere property right.
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