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Abraham Lincoln represented the republican principles during the Lincoln-Douglas debates by taking a stand against slavery. He declared that if slavery is not wrong, than nothing is wrong. Lincoln predicted that slavery would not last very long and soon eventually die on its own. While there is still slavery in the Southern states then there was to be not slavery in the Western states. Lincoln stated that "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the whites and black races. There is no reason in the world why the Negro is not entitled to all rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and pursuit happiness."

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