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Lincoln uses the terms life and limb to symbolize the

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Lincoln means that the United States is unconstitutional if slavery is not abolished. He means to say that preserving the Constitution is abolishing slavery and that this would only bring progress to the United States. Keeping slavery would only wreck the United States.

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