On the recordNovember 18, 1863
The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose.
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The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remaining after all fair credits have been deducted.
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep faith with both, and we do but confuse ourselves in questioning the process by which the right result is reached.
Let nothing which is transpiring change, hinder, or delay your military movements or plans.
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.