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  1. There are all sorts of ironies about Lincoln and Virginia. The Great Emancipator and the capital of the Confederacy. It is one of those impossible questions: How would Jefferson, who died in 1826, have responded to the Civil War? Knowing well that Jefferson had been a Democrat (or a Democratic Republican) and he himself one of the principal makers of the Republican party, in the Gettysburg Address Lincoln gave new life to Jefferson’s ringing words in the Declaration of Independence. History is replete with surprising juxtapositions.

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