On the recordSeptember 15, 1858
I say when this government was first established, it was the policy of its founders to prohibit the spread of slavery into the new Territories of the United States where it had not existed.
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Lincoln asserts that the original policy of the nation's founders was to prevent the expansion of slavery into new U.S. territories.
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