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I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. 3/3
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10 yrs earlier, he strongly opposed the Mexican American War as being all about adding slave states & killing a lot of Mexicans and Americans in the process. So, he wasn’t even renominated for his Congress seat. By 1858, he was using a lot more finesse.
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