The Federal Government, however, as we insist, has the power of restraining the extension of the institution--the power to insure that a slave insurrection shall never occur on any American soil which is now free from slavery.
In his Cooper Union Address, Lincoln asserts the federal government's constitutional power to prevent the spread of slavery into new territories.
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