On the recordSeptember 15, 1858
I say that Judge Douglas and his friends have changed it from the position in which our fathers originally placed it.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “I say that Judge Douglas and his friends have changed it from the position in which our fathers originally placed it.”
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Lincoln asserts that his political opponents have altered the original position of the Founding Fathers regarding the institution of slavery.
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