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   Gettysburg Address

   The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. ... Lincoln's "few appropriate remarks" summarized the war in 10 sentences and 272 words.
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   Abraham Lincoln and religion

   According to Salmon Chase, Lincoln said, "I made a solemn vow before God, that if General Lee was driven back from Maryland I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves." ... The earliest reference I have found to the story in which Lincoln is alleged to have said to an unnamed Illinois minister, "I do love Jesus" is in a sermon preached in the Baptist Church of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, April 19, 1865, by Rev. W.W. Whitcomb, which was published in the Oshkosh Northwestern, April 21, 1865, and in 1907 issued in pamphlet form by John E. Burton."
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   American Civil War

   Northern politician Abraham Lincoln said, "this question of Slavery was more important than any other; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present." ... "A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.".
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   Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858

   Douglas tried to convince, especially the Democrats, that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the American Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites. ... ↑ First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 - Abraham Lincoln said, "Then what is necessary for the nationalization of slavery?
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   Abraham Lincoln

   Despite support for the Crittenden Compromise among some Republicans, Lincoln denounced it in private letters, saying "either the Missouri line extended, or... ... Find more about Abraham Lincoln on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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   United States Declaration of Independence

   In one famous story, John Hancock supposedly said that Congress, having signed the Declaration, must now "all hang together", and Benjamin Franklin replied: "Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." ... “Lincoln does not argue law or history, as Daniel Webster did.
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   Abraham Lincoln on slavery

   It has been argued that by making a declaration only about territories he did not control, as a practical matter, he did not free a single slave. ... Lincoln said he was against Negro suffrage in his speech in Columbus, Ohio on September 16, 1859.:d
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   John Brown (abolitionist)

   President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." ... As shown in the Ohio Cultivator, Brown and other wool growers had already complained about this problem as something that hurt U.S. wools abroad.
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   History of the United States (1849–1865)

   Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney was the first person who said that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to blacks and that Douglas was the second. ... Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

    Also in his inaugural address, in a final attempt to unite the Union and prevent the looming war, Lincoln supported the pending Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had passed Congress. ... The Declaration's emphasis on freedom and equality for all, rather than the Constitution's tolerance of slavers, shifted the debate.

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