Anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
In a debate, Lincoln dismisses arguments for perfect social and political equality between races as illogical and deceptive sophistry.
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