Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2 [Sept. 3, 1848-Aug. 21, 1858].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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[1] Decatur State Chronicle, February 28, 1856, and Peoria Weekly Republican, February 29, 1856. The occasion was a dinner concluding the Anti-Nebraska Editors' Convention at Decatur.

[2] Richard J. Oglesby of Decatur.

[3] Among other things, the resolutions adopted by the convention called for securing ``to Kansas and Nebraska the legal guaranty against slavery of which they were deprived at the cost of the violation of the plighted faith of the nation,'' and declared against Know-Nothingism, and in favor of ``liberty of conscience as well as political freedom.''