Addressing supporters in Gettysburg, Pa., Rick Santorum invoked Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. He also recalled the election of 1860 — when Lincoln was first elected, and after which the Southern states seceded from the Union in order to uphold the institution of slavery — and said the 2012 election is the most important contest in the 150-plus years since.
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