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.
Remarks at the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club in New York City
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I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
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