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Abraham Lincoln: “This assurance would end the struggle now and save the Union forever.”

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This assurance would end the struggle now and save the Union forever.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Lincoln expresses that the assurance of emancipation would end the ongoing struggle and save the Union permanently.

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