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With direct and forceful language Lincoln took the people into his confidence.
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This passage highlights Lincoln's effective communication style during a critical time in American history.
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This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
This reckless claim amazed his friends as much as it aroused his enemies, and he at once became the object of most cutting reproaches.
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