felt that if the slaves wouldn’t be freed, this country wouldn’t be serving its purpose. In his famous “House Divided” speech, he quoted the bible, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He also predicted, “the American society, cannot endure permanently half slave and half free…It will become all one thing, or all the other.” This clearly shows how he felt about slavery and how being divided up, they could never be a strong nation. (Textbook, page 412) Another argument that Abraham Lincoln…
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