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Why did Lincoln come out of political retirement

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Lincoln retired from political life and seemed content to build his thriving law ... We saw into it plainly ten days ago; but with every possible effort, could not head it off.".
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He was unhappy about the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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