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By Abraham Lincoln
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
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- Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 · Vol. 5
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln's reply of August 22, 1862 to Horace Greeley's open letter "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," printed in the New York Tribune. The Collected Works italicizes "is" and "not" here.