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jakhunter354
13.04.2021 • 
English

(55 Points) Summarize President Lincoln’s meaning in the paragraph in bold. Use proper spelling and grammar. *It doesn't have to be perfect at all, I'm just trying to get a better understanding the message that he's trying to get by*

The Text:
"I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and I aver that, to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?"

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