Excerpt from the House Divided speech : AMsS, 1860 : Springfield, Ill.

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Excerpt from the House Divided speech : AMsS, 1860 : Springfield, Ill.

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A passage from the speech first delivered when Lincoln accepted the Illinois Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, 16 June 1858, stating his belief that the nation could not remain half slave and half free and that neither side could prevail until a crisis had been reached.

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