What I quoted is a highly biased account, as Lovejoy's side won the battle, to the detriment of the future of White Illinois. The state does what it can to smear Lawless and Linder, but the plain truth that emerges from the smears is that out of staters, Christian jackasses, sanctimonious madmen, came to Illinois with the express purpose of creating East St. Louis out of as much of the region as they could.
You can't find one thing Lincoln said that was remotely comparable to the mildest thing a sanctimonious madman like Lovejoy printed daily in his paper before he was ended.
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