Letter to James C. Conkling
08/25/1863
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The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
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...
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...