When he says he "cares not whether slavery is voted down or voted up,"--that it is a sacred right of self-government,--he is, in my judgment, penetrating the human soul and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty in this American people.
Lincoln condemned Stephen Douglas's stance of indifference to the expansion of slavery, arguing it corrupted the moral and intellectual foundations of the American people.
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