On the recordOctober 16, 1854
Thus we see the plain, unmistakable spirit of their age towards slavery was hostility to the principle, and toleration only by necessity.
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Lincoln asserted in his Peoria speech that the prevailing sentiment of the Founding era was one of opposition to slavery in principle, accepting it only out of unavoidable necessity.
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