What is Lincoln's current focus in the weeks before his death?

22, 1862: President Lincoln told a New York newspaper that preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War — not abolishing slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it," Lincoln said.

Explanation:

the nationalists wanted a strong central government so the new country wouldn't fall apart.

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