In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction.... All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.


Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois (ed. 1860)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in...

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in...

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in...

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in...