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What United States group does Lincoln say will Recognize and help to maintain the freedom of slaves?

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That on the 1st day of January A.D 1863, all persons held as Slaves within any states or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thence forward and forever free; and the execution government of the United States, including the military and naval authority
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