Remarks in Response to a Serenade
10/18/1864
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I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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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 striv...
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...