If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation and go to work energetically and very kindly to get rid of the evil. Now let us test them. Frank Blair tried it; and he ran for Congress in '58, and got beaten. Did the democracy feel bad about it? I reckon not, I guess you all flung up your hats and shouted 'Hurrah for the Democracy!'


Speech at Hartford (1860)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation...

If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation...

If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation...

If those democrats really think slavery wrong they will be much pleased when earnest men in the slave states take up a plan of gradual emancipation...