I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
In a letter to a mother who lost multiple sons in the Civil War, Lincoln offers a prayer for her comfort and acknowledges the immense sacrifice she made for freedom.
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Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?
Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued favor of Almighty God.
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