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Title: Political speeches and debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, 1854-1861
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
Publisher: Chicago : Scott, Foresman and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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the people are opposed to it,our right is a barren, worthless, useless right; and if they are forit, they will support and encourage it. We come right back, there-fore, to the practical question. If the people of a Territory wantslavery, they will have it; and if they do not want it, you cannotforce it on them. And this is the practical question, the greatprinciple, upon which our institutions rest. I am willing to takethe decision of the Supreme Court as it was pronounced by thataugust tribunal, without stopping to inquire whether I would havedecided that way or not. I have had many a decision made againstme on questions of law which I did not like, but I was bound bythem just as much as if I had had a hand in making them and ap-proved them. Did you ever see a lawyer or a client lose, his casethat he approved the decision of the court? They always think thedecision unjust when it is given against them. In a government oflaws, like ours, we must sustain the Constitution as our fathers
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THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. Abraham Lincolns monument stands on Oak Ridge, near Springfield, Illinois. It was dedicated October 15, 1874, and is the work of the sculptor Larkin G. IVlead. The structure is of white marble with a portrait-statue of Lincoln in bronze. LINCOLN. 283 made it, and maintain the rights of the States as they are guaran-teed under the Constitution, and then we will have peace and har-mony between the different States and sections of this gloriousUnion. FOUETH JOINT DEBATE, AT CHAELESTON. September 18, 1858. MR. LINCOLNS SPEECH. Ladies and Gtentlemen : It will be very difficult for an audienceso large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and conse-quently it is important that as profound silence be preserved aspossible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman calledupon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a per-fect equality between the negroes and white people. While I hadnot proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on

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