“The Republican principle, the unalterable principle, never to be lost sight of, is that slavery is wrong.”
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Speech at Peoria, Illinois, in Reply to Senator Douglas (16 October 1854); published in The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (1894) Vol. 2
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