Whig (nationalist) former Representative Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, speaking in Peoria, Illinois explains his position on the Compromise of 1850: “I meant not to ask for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.”
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Authority:
Article I of Amendment
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References:
Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Peoria Illinois,” Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 2:247, 260.
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/