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“I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, June 16, 1858.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9ce5cc577f64000035c163cff2742768c06a89b519d2aacb8c9b379212d08420
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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