Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lincoln and an Urgent World Problem: Fourth Annual Lincoln Lecture, Cooper Union, N. Y. February 12, 1943
Senator Douglas had recently contended that according to the founding fathers, the federal government had no right to con trol slavery in the federal territories. Holding the opposite posi tion, Lincoln set out to document it with a thorough study of the opinions of the founding fathers as preserved in the records of the Constitutional Convention and he labored more carefully than he had in creating any previous oration. The result was the most learned, close - knit argument of his career.
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