What happened to Abraham Lincoln's missing slavery speech?

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On the skills section of Abraham Lincoln’s resume, Edited orator ranks near the top. During the course of his career, the 16th president excelled at giving profound, rousing, and memorable speeches that have been engraved on the soul of the country.

But while schools across the U.S. instill their students with the historic lines from the Gettysburg Address, while politicians quote his second inaugural address in the hallowed halls of Congress, and scholars call on his “House Divided” declamation to highlight our current struggles, they are missing the firepower of what was allegedly the best speech Lincoln ever made.

At 5:30 p.m. on May 29, 1856, Lincoln took the stage in Major’s Hall in Bloomington at the meeting that would become known as the first Republican State Convention of Illinois.
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