But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the North and in the South, and he longed above every thing for the day when they should once more be knit together in the unbreakable bonds of eternal friendship.
Remarks at the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club in New York City
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