“[P]reservation of the Union was not a partisan policy.”

— Harry V. Jaffa

p. 254 https://web.archive.org/web/20160408021354/https://books.google.com/books?id=u1xgWBntGYIC&pg=PA254#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)

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