Where Lincoln Stood on Slavery By Carl M. Cannon

Where Lincoln Stood on Slavery By Carl M. Cannon

In an 1864 letter to a friend from Kentucky, a newspaperman named Albert G. Hodges, Lincoln wrote, “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.” A month before he died, in a speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment, Lincoln said simply, “Whenever [I] hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Of course anything about Abraham Lincoln is going to get my attention and this is particularly good.