I said that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation; under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
In a debate with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln quoted his own earlier speech to highlight the failure of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to quell the slavery debate.
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