... heard this, he fired Fremont immediately. Lincoln's true thoughts of racial equality come forward in a debate with Senator Stephen Douglas in Ottawa. Again, he contradicts himself on where his own stance on slavery is. "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will ... ; blockading the Southern ports; suspending the writ of habeas corpus for the duration of his administration; imprisoning without trial thousands of Northern citizens; arresting and imprisoning news...

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