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Photographer: Bill Pfingsten
Taken: June 11, 2012
Caption: Rear of Lincoln-Douglas Sculpture
Additional Description: Lincoln at Quincy
"We have in this nation this element of domestic slavery. We think it is a wrong not confining itself merely to the persons or the States where it exists but that it is a wrong in its tendency to say the least that extends itself to the existence of the whole nation."

Douglas At Quincy
"I hold that the people of the slaveholding states are civilized men as well as ourselves. That they bear consciences as well as we and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.
Submitted: August 26, 2012, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p216992
File Size: 1.247 Megabytes

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