Original sentence: Though he thought it was essentially a reaffirmation of terms already in the Constitution, Lincoln was a driving force behind the "compromise" Corwin amendment that would have explicitly prohibited congressional interference with slavery in states where it already existed
Edited sentence: "I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects---certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.In the first debate with Douglas, he stated:.Though he thought it was essentially a reaffirmation of terms already in the Constitution, Lincoln supported the "compromise" Corwin amendment that would have explicitly prohibited congressional interference with slavery in states where it already existed, in an effort to prevent Southern secession.Yet Lincoln also believed that Blacks were included in the language of the Declaration of Independence