Read this passage from Abraham Lincoln’s letter to a citizen of Kentucky:
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.
Lincoln uses the terms life and limb to symbolize the
A) Constitution and the concept of slavery
B) Constitution and concept of war
C) Confederate forces and the Union
D) Union and the Northern forces
