3. Which of the following events most directly contradicts Lincoln’s views expressed in the passage at left?
“. . . As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing,’ as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be ‘the Union as it was.’ If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leave others alone, I would also do that. . . . I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, every-where, could be free.”
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
A) The issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation
B) The highly visible campaign of African American and white abolitionists against slavery
C) The continued dominance of southern planters in the region after the war
D) The enlistment of African Americans in the Union army
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