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Excerpt from Lincoln in Pennsylvania
After his return to Illinois from his Congressional term, Lincoln devoted himself to his law work. His legal practice increased. He became recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the state. In the meantime, the slavery question became the center of debate throughout the nation. Lincoln was not a supporter of abolitionism, the doctrines Of which he considered but he was earnestly opposed to slavery. The nation as a whole had expected peace after the passage of the Compromise Measure in 1850. However the new Fugitive Slave Law which gave the United States' Marshall power to deputize a private citizen to aid in the capture of a fugitive Slave had aroused a terrific storm of opposition in the north and resentment in the South, because many of the northern states had passed Personal Liberty laws, which nullified the Fugitive Slave law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
