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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Harrogate, Tenn.) : Lincoln Memorial University
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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r the rule adopted in the Minnesotacase, requiring a constitution to be submitted tothe people, should be followed in all futurecases, and if he stands by that recommendationthere will be no division in the Democraticparty on that principle in the future. Hence 30 Stephen A. Douglas (Sept. 15 the great mission of the Democracy is to unitethe fraternal feeling of the whole country, re-store peace and quiet by teaching each State tomind its own business and regulate its own do-mestic affairs, and all to unite in carrying outthe Constitution as our fathers made it, and thusto preserve the Union and render it perpetualin all time to come. Why should we not actas our fathers who made the government?There was no sectional strife in Washingtonsarmy. They were all brethren of a commonconfederacy; they fought under a common flagthat they might bestow upon their posterity acommon destiny, and to this end they poured outtheir blood in common streams, and shared, insome instances, a common grave.
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John Brown Wood Engraving from a Photograph by J. W.Black and Co. 1858) Reply at Jonesboro 31 Mr. Lincolns Reply in the Jonesboro JointDebate. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Thereis very much in the principles thatJudge Douglas has here enunciated thatI most cordially approve, and over which Ishall have no controversy with him. In so faras he has insisted that all the States have theright to do exactly as they please about all theirdomestic relations, including that of slavery, Iagree entirely with him. He places me wrongin spite of all I can tell him, though I repeatit again and again, insisting that I have madeno difference with him upon this subject. Ihave made a great many speeches, some ofwhich have been printed, and it will be utterlyimpossible for him to find anything that I haveever put in print contrary to what I now sayupon this subject. I hold myself under consti-tutional obligations to allow the people in allthe States, without interference, direct or indi-rect, to do exactly as th

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