But he has no right to mislead others who have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that "our fathers who framed the government under which we live" were of the same opinion--thus substituting falsehood and deception for truthful evidence and fair argument.
In his Cooper Union Address, Lincoln argues against misrepresenting the founders' views on slavery to mislead the public.
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