I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are not to blame for the institution of slavery among them. They are in the condition of a man with a wen on his neck. It is an excrescence, but you can't cut it off without danger to the life of the patient.
— Abraham Lincoln Modern

Preserved the Union, ended slavery

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Speech at Peoria, Illinois

Date / Period

1854

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Controversial

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https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/peoriaspeech.htm

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