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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 4 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...eral principle. The acts to which I have referred were a part of a general system of Compromises. They did not lay down what was proposed as a regular... ...- cause in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included ha... ...s with the understanding that the other measures were to pass, and by this system of compromise, in that series of measures, those two bills—the New M... ...in the most ingenious way, to prepare the public mind for this move- ment, operating in the free States, where there is now an ab- horrence of the ins... ...rd, that his system of policy in regard to the institution of slavery con- templates that it shall last forever. We are getting a little nearer the tr... ...g paeans to his “Popular Sovereignty” doctrine until his Supreme Court, co-operating with him, has squatted his Squatter Sovereignty out. But he will ...

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