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Question 978:
Concerning the issue of the abolition of slavery, match this quote with
its author: “I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as
justice... I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse
– I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD”
(A) Abraham Lincoln and the 1846
"spot resolutions"
(B) William Lloyd Garrison in his
initial edition of the newspaper The Liberator in 1831
(C) Stephen Douglas promoting the
Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
(D) Daniel Webster advocating for
the Compromise of 1850
(E) James Buchanan on the secession of South
Carolina in 1860
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