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id, in reference to the emancipation proclamation, that the paramount idea of the Constitution was the preservation of the Republic, and that he had never for a moment doubted the right and the power of the Executive to issue such a proclamation whenever it was manifest that, like a patient's diseased limb, "life" could be saved only by amputation. Public sentiment had advanced slowly but surely, and he had moved just as fast as it seemed to him he could move and he sustained. He could not have felt justified in the emancipation issue until all other means of restoring or preserving the Republic had failed, and he had no consciousness of having transcended his powers "I do not see," said he, "how any man standing in my shoes could have done otherwise than I have done" At the close of the interview he invited the party into the State dining room, to see the painting commemorating the first reading of the proclamation to the Cabinet, now executing by Mr. Carpenter, of New York.