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Lincoln's paramount object in his struggle was to preserve the Union. He didn't want the South breaking away and forming its own country. He said in one of his speeches that if he could restore the union by freeing all the slaves, he would do it. If he could restore the Union by only freeing some slaves and not others, he would do it, and if he could do it without freeing any slaves, he would do it.

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