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The real contest was, not between Lincoln and Douglas, or between Cox and me, but between Breckenridge and Lincoln, between free institutions and slave institutions, between union and disunion.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “The real contest was, not between Lincoln and Douglas, or between Cox and me, but between Breckenridge and Lincoln…”
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Sherman emphasizes that the true political struggle was between differing visions for the nation, not just individual candidates.
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