Remarks in Spokane, Washington
05/25/1903
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There has never been another war in which the issues at stake were so large.
Just one word in closing. As I said, we need to display the same qualities now that you needed in 1861.
Our country, now so great and so wonderful, would have been split into little jangling rival nationalities.
Lincoln forthwith published that immortal paper, the preliminary declaration of emancipation.