"...Now, my opinion is, that the different States have the power to make a negro a citizen under the constitution of the United States, if they choose. The Dred Scott decision decides that they have not. If the State of Illinois had that power I should be against the exercise of it."
Abraham Lincoln, 4th Debate, Rejoinder
Well, how bout this, then, Mr Lincoln:
Say, the state of Illinois had said,
"Why don't we make citizens of the United States of those nice black cannibal folks in Borneo, where our good Christian missionaries now already work so hard, but sometimes also get eaten, to make them good Christians?
"Why don't we just bring a nice bunch of them in here to Chicago, to become, by the laws of Illinois, citizens of the United States?"
Well, how bout this, then, Mr Lincoln:
Say, the state of Illinois had said,
"Why don't we make citizens of the United States of those nice black cannibal folks in Borneo, where our good Christian missionaries now already work so hard, but sometimes also get eaten, to make them good Christians?
"Why don't we just bring a nice bunch of them in here to Chicago, to become, by the laws of Illinois, citizens of the United States?"
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