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This Lincoln always publicly condemned the abolitionists who fought slavery by extraconstitutional means—and condemned also the mobs who deprived them of their right of free speech and free press.†
Subsection 3

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
The implication is clear: Lincoln was half abolitionist and the Emancipation Proclamation was fulfillment of that young promise.†
Subsection 4 *

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
The committee reported proslavery resolutions, presently adopted, which praised the beneficent effects of white civilization upon African natives, cited the wretchedness of emancipated Negroes as proof of the folly of freedom, and denounced abolitionists.†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
It read in part: "They [Lincoln and Stone] believe that the institution of slavery is founded on injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends to increase rather than abate its evils."†
Subsection 4
In 1845, not long before he entered Congress, Lincolnagain had occasion to express himself on slavery, this time in a carefully phrased private letter to a political supporter who happened to be an abolitionist.†
Subsection 4

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
He took pains in all his speeches to stress that he was not an abolitionist and at the same time to stand on the sole program of opposing the extension of slavery.†
Subsection 4
To comprehend Lincoln's strategy we must keep one salient fact in mind: the abolitionists and their humanitarian sympathizers in the nation at large and particularly in the Northwest, the seat of Lincoln's strength, although numerous enough to hold the balance of power, were far too few to make a successful political party.†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
Most of the white people of the Northwest, moreover, were in fact not only not abolitionists, but actually—and here is the core of the matter—Negrophobes.†
Subsection 4
Merely to insist that slavery was an evil would sound like abolitionism and offend the Negrophobes.†
Subsection 4

abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
There, according to the report of one of his colleagues at the Illinois bar, Lincoln warned that Douglas and his followers would frighten men away from the very idea of freedom with their incessant mouthing of the red-herring epithet: "Abolitionist!"†
Subsection 4

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
Negrophobes and abolitionists alike could understand this threat; if freedom should be broken down they might themselves have to compete with the labor of slaves in the then free states—or might even be reduced to bondage along with the blacks!†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
Here was an argument that could strike a responsive chord in the nervous system of every Northern man, farmer or worker, abolitionist or racist: if a stop was not put somewhere upon the spread of slavery, the institution would become nation-wide.8 Here, too, is the pracThe only existing version of this speech is not a verbatim report.†
Subsection 4

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
To please the abolitionists he kept saying that slavery was an evil thing; but for the material benefit of all Northern white men he opposed its further extension.†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
Lincoln was not emphasizing the necessity for abolition of slavery in the near future; he was emphasizing the immediate "danger" that slavery would become a nation-wide American institution if its geographical spread were not severely restricted at once.†
Subsection 4
Once this "House Divided" speech had been made, Lincoln had to spend a great deal of time explaining it, proving that he was not an abolitionist.†
Subsection 4

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
These efforts, together with his strategy of appealing to abolitionists and Negrophobes at once, involved him in embarrassing contradictions.†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
In northern Illinois he spoke in one vein before abolition-minded audiences, but farther south, where settlers of Southern extraction were dominant, he spoke in another.†
Subsection 4
In addition to abolitionists and Negrophobes, it united high— and low-tariff men, hard-and soft-money men, former Whigs and former Democrats embittered by old political fights, Maine-law prohibitionists and German tipplers, Know-Nothings and immigrants.†
Subsection 4

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
In August 1861 the abolitionist General Fremont, sorely tried by guerrilla warfare in Missouri, declared martial law and proclaimed that all slaves of local owners resisting the United States where freemen.†
Subsection 6

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
Further, a great section of conservative Northern opinion was willing to fight for the Union but might refuse to support a war to free Negroes, and kept insisting that the war would become more bitter if the South saw that it was fighting avowed abolitionism.†
Subsection 6

abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
He listened to the protests and denunciations of the Radicals and their field agents throughout the country, and politely heard abolition delegations to the White House.†
Subsection 6
Butit is significant that such a haughty and impatient abolitionist as Senator Charles Sumner developed a deep respect and affection for Lincoln.†
Subsection 6

abolitionist = a reformer who favored ending slavery
The criticism was hard to bear (perhaps hardest of all that from the abolitionists, which he knew had truth in it).†
Subsection 7

abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery

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(1) (abolition)
the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named
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