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  • Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

    Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
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