Whig (nationalist) former Representative Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, speaking at the Funeral of Whig Senator Henry Clay, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, calls for the preservation of slavery: “I think no wise man has perceived, how it [slavery] could be at once eradicated, without producing a greater evil, even to the cause of human liberty himself.”

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Abraham Lincoln, “Eulogy to Henry Clay,” Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 2:121, 130.

The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/

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