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What does lincoln mean by calling the civil war a test of the nation's ability to"long endure?"

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he steered the north to victory and he authored the emancipation proclomation. that dealt with a hard blow to the instituition of slavery in the south.
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It will test if they can survive this civil war stay united, then the Union will continue to live on. 
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