Teddy Roosevelt: “If the great silent soldier, the Hammer of the North, had struck the shackles off the slave only, as so many conquerors…”

“If the great silent soldier, the Hammer of the North, had struck the shackles off the slave only, as so many conquerors in civil strife before him had done, to rivet them around the wrists of freemen, then the war would have been fought in vain, and worse than in vain.”