Second Inaugural Address
03/03/1865
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The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bil...
But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly...
It winds the whole thing up.
But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.