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To what was Lincoln referring to when he noted that "Neither [side] anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease"?
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Answer:

Lincoln is referring to the fact that both the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment had been passed by Congress before the Civil War came to an end. Slavery, the cause of the war, had been abolished while the war continued.

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