Thomas Jefferson and other Virginia opponents of slavery had often made similar predictions. Even as a prophecy of emancipation, it involved no other suggestion than that slavery was an antiquated institution at war with the genius of our government and the spirit of the age and was doomed by forces world wide in their potency to ultimate extinction.
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From Platform of National Republican Party, Chicago
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From President Lincoln's Inaugural Address, March 4,
1861.
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Causes of the Civil War, Chadwick, p. 143.
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Story on the Constitution, Story, Vol. II, p. 670,
Note 2.
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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Davis,
Vol. I, p. 262.
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Joint Resolutions adopted by Congress, July 22,
1861.
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