āBut now it is to be transformed into a āsacred right.ā Nebraska brings it forth, places it on the high road to extension and perpetuity; and, with a pat on its back, says to it, āGo and God speed you.ā Henceforth it is to be the chief jewel of the nation, the very figure-head of the ship of State. Little by little, but steadily as manās march to the grave, we have been giving up the OLD for the NEW faith.. Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave others is a sacred right of self-government. These principles cannot stand together. They are opposite as God and mammon; and whosoever holds to the one, must despise the other.ā Abraham Lincoln, 1854 During the course of the 1800s, three Americans, John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln, all meek of heart, brilliant in their thinking, and determined in their resolve, took it upon thems...
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