Did you read the whole thing? Did you read every last word? You have to read the whole thing, in its entirety, to truly get the full flavor of that kind of Yankee Republicanism.
I like something with a bit more pith:
"He {Lincoln] also began to understand the effect that slavery had on white Southerners. He took great interest in affairs in Kentucky, where his father-in-law, Robert S. Todd, along with Henry Clay, was working for gradual emancipation, which they hoped the Kentucky constitutional convention of 1849 would endorse. But the convention overwhelmingly rejected all plans to end slavery or even to ameliorate it. Todd, a candidate for the senate, died during the campaign; had he lived, he could have been disastrously defeated. These developments gave Lincoln a new insight into Southern society. Even nonslaveholders, who constituted an overwhelming majority of the Kentucky voters, were opposed to any form of emancipation. The prospect of owning slaves, he learned, was "highly seductive to the thoughtless and giddy headed young men," because slaves were "the most glittering ostentatious and displaying property in the world." As a young Kentuckian told him, "You might have any amount of land; money in your pocket or bank stock and while traveling around no body would be any wiser, but if you had a darkey trudging at your heels every body would see him and know that you owned slaves."
- "Lincoln" by David Donald, p. 116
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