However I quickly found that doing any justice to this subject would require much more than time would allow, nothing less than a book. ... It was this book in particular that helped me to realize that scope of my research must be wider. ... I believe that this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... He goes on in that same speech to state that the nation will eventually go entirely slave or free. ... I think it also important to note that Lincoln and McClellan met at Antietam on October 4 1862. ...

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