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To save the Union - and by implication, the huge cotton revenues, which amounted to half the exports of the pre-war Unired States.

It was later, when the British were threatening to help the South, that he turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that free nations abroad could not aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves.

He was also hoping that it would make the Northern public feel more sense of mission, but there was not much sign of this, and the mid-term elections convinced him that would be voted out in 1864.

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