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What does President Lincoln mean when he says he was "being accused of protracting the war beyond its legitimate object"?

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He said he was being accused of protracting the war beyond its legitimate object, and of failing to make peace, when he might have done so to advantage. What he said on this day showed a deeper moral conviction against slavery than I had even seen before in anything spoken or written by him.

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