Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Excerpt copied below is from a speech by Abraham Lincoln in New Haven on March 6, 1850.  Which wrong is unspeakable in 2014? 

" . . . there is no place where you will allow it to be even called wrong! We must not call it wrong in the Free States, because it is not there, and we must not call it wrong in the Slave States because it is there; we must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into the Tract Society or the other societies, because those are such unsuitable places, and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can properly be called wrong!"

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