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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (108962)	12/9/2000 11:07:03 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

One more good one before bed... In October 1859, Lincoln accepted an invitation to lecture at Henry Ward Beecher's church in Brooklyn, New York, and chose a political topic which required months of painstaking research. His law partner, William Herndon, observed, "No former effort in the line of speech-making had cost Lincoln so much time and thought as this one," a remarkable comment considering the previous year's debates with Stephen Douglas. The carefully crafted speech examined the views of the 39 signers of the Constitution. Lincoln noted that at least 21 of them - a majority - believed that Congress should control slavery in the territories, not allow it to expand. Thus, the Republican stance of the time was not revolutionary, but similar to the Founding Fathers, and should not alarm Southerners (radicals had threatened to secede if a Republican was elected President). showcase.netins.net