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The Founding Fathers were well aware of the urgency and challenges concerning the removal of slavery: http://tjrs.monticello.org/archive/search/quotes?keys=&field_tjrs_categorization_tid[]=2183&field_tjrs_categorization_tid[]=2171
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 14 July 1787 [Quote]
I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it for ever. this abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.
Thomas Jefferson
by Nathan Shachner
Publisher: Thomas Yoseloff;
(pages 121, 134)
1951
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, [before 17June 1783] [Quote]
The General assembly shall not have power ... to permit the introduction of any more slaves to reside in this state, or the continuance of slavery beyond the generation which shall be living on the 31st. day of December 1800; all persons born after that day being hereby declared free.
Abraham Lincoln
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532.
"Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it, is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois" (October 16, 1854), p. 271.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
Lincoln's 'House-Divided' Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858.
"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery...
,,,I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him...
...personally."
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VIII, "Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment" (March 17, 1865), p. 361.
