Why they went I do not know. They evidently were patriotic. But stop and think a minute. The Representative from California did not live in central Illinois. as I lived. was not conversant with southern Ohio or central or southern Indiana. did not know about Missouri. did not know about Kentucky. Why. Lincoln had to go slow. with the immigration coining from the Southland. as it did. and settling up along the border of the free States. There they had their sympathies with the home people from whom they came and their prejudices against the African. They were divided nearly half and half.
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