How much better for you as seller, and the nation as buyer, to sell out and buy out that without which the war could never have been, than to sink both the thing to be sold and the price of it in cutting one another's throats!
In an appeal to border states, Lincoln argues for compensated emancipation as a pragmatic way to end the war and save lives and money.
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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.
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Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued favor of Almighty God.
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