When victory over secessionists was within days & slavery nearing an end, after some 700,000 deaths, Abraham Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural address. He spoke not of the joys & triumph of victory but of the sorrow and responsibilities the nation would carry forward
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, w firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds -to do all which may achieve & cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and w all nations
3) full text Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_Second_Inaugural_Address
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