If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Reflecting on the Civil War, Lincoln considers the divine will in rectifying the injustice of slavery and the shared responsibility for its existence.
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