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[[image - black and white photograph of Abraham Lincoln]] [[caption]] Let us have faith that right makes might . . . [[/caption]] Fragment on Slavery, July 1, 1854? Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of men . . . Ours began by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant and vicious to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser and all better and happier together. We made the experiment, and the fruit is before us. . . . Look at it in its aggregate grandeur. . . . 22