In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.


Abraham Lincoln (ed. 1894)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the...

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the...

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the...

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the...