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what about the other ninety percent?"
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Well Lincoln's idea was if you can establish
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a pocket of people in lower Louisiana or upland Alabama,
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or part of Virginia that the Union troops occupy, and you get,
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if you can get ten percent of that state to take a loyalty oath
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and elect some kind of little rump legislature
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that can meet somewhere, like Wheeling, West Virginia,
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where they did for awhile,
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then he would call that the real Virginia,
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or the real Louisiana,
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and they'd be back in the Union.
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And his idea was that you would begin