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

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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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