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Posted By: howard

Of course Linclon was concerned w/civil rights. However, until the Civil War his overriding concern was to avoid war and preserve the Union. A predominant theme of his speeches from the time he entered politics until the war began was that he was vehemently opposed to slavery and that he was convinced that slavery would die off on it's own. To Lincoln this was preferable to a war in which several hundred thousand people died. Your quote fragment is consistent w/this belief.

Howard