On the recordAugust 22, 1862
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and not either to save or to destroy slavery.
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In a widely published letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln declares his primary goal in the Civil War is the preservation of the United States, not the immediate fate of slavery.
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