On the recordFebruary 12, 1861
What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State?
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Speaking to the Indiana legislature, Lincoln challenges the idea that merely being designated a "State" grants an inherent right to act tyrannically towards the larger nation.
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