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Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854

Address at Cooper Institute by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Lincoln Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Lincoln Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Lincoln Opening Remarks

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Douglas's Opening Remarks

A House Divided by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Lincoln Opening Remarks

The Right to Criticize American Institutions by Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass

On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward

Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Lincoln Opening Remarks

Speech at Hartford Connecticut by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Rebuttal

Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Opening Remarks

Fragment on Slavery II by Abraham Lincoln

"The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question." Editorial.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Stephen Douglas Opening Remarks

Dred Scott Decision