The perils of the enterprize are already passed--its difficulties have already been removed--when it shall have been accomplished it will be justly regarded as the last noble effort which rendered the Republic imperishable.
Seward expresses confidence that the successful completion of emancipation will be seen as a noble effort for the Republic.
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