... 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 ... 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...

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