In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Abraham Lincoln's position was that a divided nation could not stand. He believed that the nation would eventually be either completely free or completely slave.
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Lincoln believed that the nation must choose between being entirely free or entirely enslaved, as a divided nation could not endure. He stated this in his famous "House Divided" speech during the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. His views reflected the growing tensions over slavery leading up to the Civil War.
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