... whites were fundamentally superior to blacks and was opposed to them holding office, the right to vote, and the right to serve on a jury in the years before the Civil War. This is true because Lincoln himself supported a law in Illinois that forbade intermarriage relations between blacks and whites, stating in one the Lincoln-Douglas debates to counter Douglas's argument that ... taunt us as hypocrites – causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental princi...

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