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It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union.
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Lincoln points out that no political candidate has dared to campaign on a platform of abandoning the Union, indicating widespread support for it.
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