In relieving Major-General Halleek from duty as General in Chief, the President desires to express his approbation and thanks for the able and zealous manner in which the arduous and responsible duties of that position have been performed.
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with 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.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
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