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Teddy Roosevelt: “This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1905
This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provoked by civil war.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club in New York City

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