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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

The Right to Criticize American Institutions by Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

Fragment on Slavery II by Abraham Lincoln

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

Speech at Kalamazoo by Abraham Lincoln