Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl...

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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States

February 12th, 1809 - April 15th, 1865

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