... and confrontation with local slave markets. After Lincoln was elected to the state legislature of Illinois he made a statement regarding protesters: "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate it evils. They believe that the Congress of the United ... ...

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