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Lincoln's Address at Cooper Institute Speaks for Federal Slavery Policy
The Fremont Journal reports Abraham Lincoln speaking at Cooper Institute New York on February 27 1860 with Winn Orm Barrier presiding. Lincoln argues that our fathers understood that Congress could regulate slavery in federal territories and defends the constitutionally derived authority to limit slavery expansion.
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