Lincoln Exalts the Rights of Americans to Secceede

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Broadside, 10-1/2”x13”, with large bold headline “EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, When a Member of Congress.” and reads in full: “...’Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have the RIGHT to rise up and shak off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right -- a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is the right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. ANY PORTION of such people that CAN, MAY revolutionize and make their OWN of so much of the territory as they inhabit.’ ---Speech of Abraham Lincoln, on the resolution referring the President’s Message to the various committees, Jan. 12, 1848. Appendix to Congressional Globe, page 94, 30th Congress.” Fine. Framed.

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