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To: nolu chan
Now that is the most intelligent thing you have said in quite some time. Your inability to defend the illegal acts and lies of the pimp are noted.

Your interminable posts represent your opinion on what constitutes illegal acts and lies, and I can't see the point in debating your opinion. It's your opinion, after all, that Jefferson Davis was a knight and a saint and didn't have a racist bone in his body.

379 posted on 09/13/2003 3:25:58 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Compared to the institution of slavery, what, exactly, was it that Lincoln considered a greater evil, even to the cause of human liberty itself?

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2, page 130

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A Greater Evil, Even to the Cause of Human Liberty Itself

Abraham Lincoln
July 6, 1852

HONORS TO HENRY CLAY

Having been led to allude to domestic slavery so frequently already, I am unwilling to close without referring more particularly to Mr. Clay's views and conduct in regard to it. He ever was, on principle and in feeling, opposed to slavery. The very earliest, and one of the latest public efforts of his life, separated by a period of more than fifty years, were both made in favor of gradual emancipation of the slaves in Kentucky. He did not perceive, that on a question of human right, the negroes were to be excepted from the human race. And yet Mr. Clay was the owner of slaves. Cast into life where slavery was already widely spread and deeply seated, he did not perceive, as I think no wise man has perceived, how it could be at once eradicated, without producing a greater evil, even to the cause of human liberty itself.

409 posted on 09/13/2003 11:45:00 AM PDT by nolu chan
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