...continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. You say, that, if Kansas fairly votes herself a free State, as a Christian you will rejoice at it. All decent...

...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...thing which has, and continually exercises, the power to make me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the northern people...

...continued torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feeling so prompt me, and I am under...

...Proclamation became an unescapable fact. "It is not fair for you," he goes on to say, "to assume that we have no interest in a thing which has and continually exercises the power to make me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people...

...assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exercises, the power / i to make me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate; ./ how...maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery because my judgment and feelings so prompt me, and I am under...

...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...thing which has, and continually exercises, the power to make me miserable. You ought rather to appreciate how much the great body of the Northern people...

...is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a- thing which has, and continually exerts, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather...maintain their loyalty to the Constitution and the Union. I do oppose the extension of slavery, because my judgment and feeling so prompt me ; and I am under...

...is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest in a thing which has, and continually exerts, the power of making me miserable. You ought rather...feelings in order to maintain their loyalty to the Con*It is noteworthy that in Lincoln's letter to Miss Mary Speed, written shortly after the event,...

...and Lincoln now was defending his own point of view. "It is hardly fair for you to assume," he wrote, "that I have no interest in a thing which has, and...continually exercises, the power of making me miserable." As a member of Congress, in 1850, Lincoln drafted and introduced a bill for the abolition of slavery...

...continual torment to me, and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio or any other slave border. It is not fair for you to assume that I have no interest...and continually exercises, the power of making me miserable."3 This personal admission may well introduce us to that strenuous time in the later fifties,...