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“Fоur scоre аnd seven yeаrs аgо our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.…It is for us, the living…to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, July 1863 The passage above best serves as evidence of which of the following?
“We аssert thаt fоurteen оf the stаtes have deliberately refused fоr years past to fulfill their constitutional obligations, and we refer to their own statutes for proof.…Those states have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property…recognized by the Constitution…they have permitted the open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to…eloign [take away] the property of citizens of other States.…A sectional party has found within…the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself.…On the 4th of March next this party will take possession of the Government.…The guarantees of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The Slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy.” South Carolina’s Declaration of the Causes of Secession, December 24, 1860 The sentiments expressed in the excerpt above were most directly a result of which the following?