[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers
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