... stated in one of his debates with Stephen Douglas, "I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position, (Speech at Ottawa, IL, August 21, 1858)" Yet this was only a scheme to gain the public's trust, for in another speech told before this, " let us discard all this quibbling about this man and ... and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position-discarding our standard that we have left us. (Speech at Chicago, IL, July 10, 1858)" Though Lincoln himself would have supported this la...

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