Special Message
12/13/1863
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In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, requesting information concerning recent conversations or ...
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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...