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Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854
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Address at Cooper Institute by Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Douglas's Opening Remarks
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A House Divided by Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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The Right to Criticize American Institutions by Frederick Douglass
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
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On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Speech at Hartford Connecticut by Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Rebuttal
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Fragment on Slavery II by Abraham Lincoln
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"The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question." Editorial.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Stephen Douglas Opening Remarks
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Dred Scott Decision
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