October 16, 1854 Speech on Kansas-Nebraska Act, Abraham Lincoln āI particularly object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic. I object to it because it assumes that there CAN be MORAL RIGHT in the enslaving of one man by another. I object to it as a dangerous dalliance for a free peopleāa sad evidence that, feeling prosperity we forget rightāthat liberty, as a principle we have ceased to revere. I object to it because the fathers of the republic eschewed, and rejected it. The argument of āNecessi...
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