To visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, and sieges, have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate.
Proclamation 103—Day of Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer, August 6, 1863
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The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?
If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.
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