... to the Constitution, which was the cause for Lincoln's idea of a gradual extinction of constitution and not an immediate emancipation, which separated him from abolitionists, and explained why he was a part of the more moderate Whig Party. In his famous Cooper Union speech on February 27th, 1860, Lincoln expressed his agreement with the Founding Fathers that slavery is "an evil ... only counted and so used, as to swell the influence of the white people's voted there is not instance of exact equality and the disadvantage is against us the whole chapter through" (Peoria Speech, 1854). The...

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