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Privately, Lincoln concluded at this point that the slave base of the Confederacy had to be eliminated.
However Copperhead rhetoric argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification.
Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.
The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:
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