Fifteen years after the Lincoln-Stone protest, Lincoln criticized abolitionists who, like Garrison, marched beneath the banner inscribed “No Union with Slaveholders.” In a eulogy on Henry Clay, Lincoln criticized Garrisonians: “Those who would shiver into fragments the Union of these States; tear to tatters its now venerated constitution; and even burn the last copy of the Bible, rather than slavery should continue a single hour, … have received, and are receiving their just execration.” He praised more moderate opponents of slavery, like Clay, and condemned those proslavery apologists who “are beginning to assail and to ridicule” the Declaration of Independence.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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