... 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 principles of civil liberty – criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest" (Gienapp, 29). On top of that the Dred Scott decision ... in 1857 when the court decided that slaves were property and did not the liberty of being a citizen, resulted in Congress possessing no authority to prohibit slavery on federal territories. Lincoln would speak of a southe...

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... in the New World. In addition, a court decision upholding the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts claimed that all men are born free and equal and every subject is entitled to liberty (Document B). Clearly, northern territories such as Massachusetts were the birthplace of the abolition movement, as talk of moral opposition to the immoral human bondage so freely practiced in the South ... ...

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