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there's no question about that.
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Now, Lincoln got the nomination largely because,
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well, one, the convention was held in his home state;
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two, william H. Seward had made a fair number of enemies
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around the republican coalition.
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He was in the limelight too long, in a sense,
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you could argue politically,
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and a lot of Republicans were looking for a
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candidate who seemed more moderate
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than that abolitionist Seward.
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They wanted to run in
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this election in a way that the Upper South,