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Slavery should be treated as an evil not to be extended, tolerated only where its presence makes that necessary
Drawn from what Abraham Lincoln said
What Abraham Lincoln actually said
- Abraham Lincoln 16th president of the United States (1809 to 1865)
As those fathers marked it, so let it again be marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity.
Where this was said
↗Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 (ed. Merwin Roe, 1907)gutenberg.org
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