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when the Union assault up that improbable slope had hardened from chaos into legend

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Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed antique art The artist understood that aIndependence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian era vow, the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty three years one announcing a republic, the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,