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Kentucky, too, for some time in doubt, is now decidedly and, I think, unchangeably ranged on the side of the Union.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Lincoln asserts that Kentucky has firmly aligned with the Union after a period of uncertainty.

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