I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any Abolitionist,--I have been an old-line Whig,--I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska bill began.
During a debate, Lincoln declared his lifelong hatred of slavery and explained why he had become more outspoken against it after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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