On the recordAugust 21, 1858
To my thinking, Judge Douglas is, by his example and vast influence, doing that very thing in this community when he says that the negro has nothing in the Declaration of Independence.
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In a debate with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln criticized his opponent's assertion that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to Black people.
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