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To: Alberta's Child

The speech was given in 1852. If was easy for abolitionists in the north to call for an end to slavery but not do anything else

Eight years later the south seceded just as they promised they would when Lincoln was elected president


13 posted on 07/05/2019 5:31:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster
Eight years later the south seceded just as they promised they would when Lincoln was elected president.

That's because they knew that Lincoln and the Republicans would extend the hated tariffs.

19 posted on 07/05/2019 5:46:33 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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