... of slavery to the southern states as now slavery could be expanded into federal territories. This new sense of radicalism can be observed in another excerpt from Lincoln'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 ... 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 as hypocrites – causes the real friends of...

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