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June 2, 1863, Dawsons Daily Times and Union (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
If the Abolitionists and Republicans; if Lincoln and Seward desire the Union to be restored, why did they so conduct themselves as to break it up?  Why did they proclaim the “Irrepressible Conflict?  Why did they treat the Constitution as a covenant with death and the Union as a league with hell?  Were they in earnest then, or are they not deceiving the people now?  We believe they meant what they said and did to break up the Union, and that they mean to destroy it now, and that they are using the army for that purpose.