1. Abraham Lincoln - Slavery and Race
... 's speech in 1854 in Peoria, Illinois: "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world – enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us ... ...
- Word Count: 2007
- Approx Pages: 8
- Grade Level: Graduate