Abolishing Slavery and Uniting the Country
-Although the decision favored slavery, in the end it was the final act which sparked the conflict of the Civil War, which ended slavery
-"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth."
-Abraham Lincoln
-"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln
"this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"
-Abraham Lincoln
-"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth."
-Abraham Lincoln
-"This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln
"this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free"
-Abraham Lincoln