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Not, then, to restore the Constitution, not to abolish Slavery, do we go forth to battle,--for neither of these,--but simply to put down the Rebellion.
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Sumner emphasizes that the primary goal of the Civil War was to suppress the Rebellion rather than to restore the Constitution or abolish slavery.
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