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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
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Lincoln emphasizes that his primary goal during the Civil War is to preserve the Union.
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And, Governor Seward, I have made it, though it be conceited in me to say so.
This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
This reduced the question to ratification or secession.
The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
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