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First Inaugural Address
| Secession and Civil War
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Message to Congress in Special Session
| Secession and Civil War
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The Emancipation Proclamation
| Secession and Civil War
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Second Inaugural Address
| Secession and Civil War
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Republican Party Platform of 1856
| Crisis of Constitutionalism
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The Constitution and the Union
| Roots of the Slavery Crisis