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Lincoln, by his Inaugural address, set himself free from all logical entanglements.
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Blaine notes that Lincoln's Inaugural address freed him from previous logical constraints regarding the Union.
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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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