For this reason I wished then, and still wish, to make some answer to it, which I now take the opportunity of doing. It was intended to controvert opinions which I think just, and to assail (politically, not personally,) those men who, in common with me, entertain those opinions. I listened to the speech at the time, and have read the report of it since. Two weeks ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the several subjects of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, presented his critique of the decision in a speech in Springfield, Illinois on June 26, 1857.įELLOW CITIZENS: I am here to-night, partly by the invitation of some of you, and partly by my own inclination. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. Supreme Court on Mawas supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S.
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