(A) ** “test the endurance of the principals of liberty”
(B) “of the people, by the people, for the people”
(C) “I can’t spare this man-he fights”
(D) “Every man must be for the United States or against it”
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Lincoln was declaring that the United States would continue to fight to preserve the nation that was created by the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Concept note-2: -“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Concept note-3: -In this open letter to Horace Greeley, President Lincoln maintained that the central cause of the Civil War was to keep the country united and not to free the slaves.