On the recordOctober 16, 1854
You despise him utterly; you do not recognize him as a friend, or even as an honest man.
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Lincoln, in his Peoria speech, highlights the widespread social disdain and moral condemnation directed towards slave-dealers, even by those who owned slaves.
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