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 Pronounced in Union Sqiiare^ April 25, 1865, at the 
 
 Funeral Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln 
 
 in the City of Ncio York. 
 
 BY GEORGE BANCROFT. 
 
 Our grief and horror at the crime which has 
 clothed the continent in mournino:, find no ade- 
 quate expression in words and no relief in tears. 
 The President of the United States of America 
 has fallen by the hands of an assassin. Neither 
 tlie office with which he was invested hj the ap- 
 proved choice of a mighty people, nor the most 
 simple-hearted kindliness of nature, could save 
 him from the fiendish passions of relentless fanat- 
 icism. The wailings of the millions attend his 
 remains as they are borne in solemn procession 
 over our great rivers, along the seaside, beyond 
 the mountains, across the prairie, to their resting 
 place in the Valley of the Mississippi. His 
 funeral knell vibrates through the world, and the 
 friends of freedom of every tongue and in every 
 clime are his mourners. 
 
 Too few days have passed away since Abra- 
 
ham Lincoln stood in the flush of vif^oroua man- 
 hood, to permit any attempt at an analysis of his 
 character or an exposition of his career. We find 
 it hard to believe that his large eyes, which in 
 their softness and beauty ex]3ressed nothing but 
 benevolence and gentleness, are closed in death ; 
 we almost look for the j)leasant smile that brought 
 out more vividly the earnest cast of his features, 
 which were serious even to sadness. A few years 
 ago he was a village attorney, engaged in the sup- 
 port of a rising family, unknown to fame, scarcely 
 named beyond his neighborhood; his adminis- 
 tration made him the most conspicuous man in 
 his country, and drew on him first the astonished 
 gaze, and then the respect and admiration of the 
 world. 
 
 Those who come after us will decide how much 
 of the wonderful results of his public career is due 
 to his own good common sense, his shrewd saga- 
 city, readiness of wit, quick interpretation of the 
 public mind, his rare combination of fixedness 
 and pliancy, his steady tendency of purpose ; how 
 much to the American people, who, as he walked 
 with them side by side, inspired him with their 
 own wisdom and energy ; and how much to the 
 overruling laws of the moral world, by which the 
 selfishness of evil is made to defeat itself But 
 after every allowance, it will remain that mem 
 
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 bers of the Government wliicli preceded his Ad- 
 ministration opened the gates to treason, and he 
 closed them ; that when he went to "Washington 
 the ground on which he trod shook nuclei* his 
 feet, and he left the republic on a solid founda- 
 tion ; that traitors had seized public forts and 
 arsenals, and he recovered them for the United 
 States, to whom they belonged ; that the capital, 
 which he found the abode of slaves, is now the 
 home only of the free ; that the boundless public 
 domain, which was grasped at, and, in a great 
 measure, held for the diftusion of slavery, is now 
 irrevocably devoted to freedom ; that then men 
 talked a jargon of a balance of power in a repub- 
 lic between Slave States and Free States, and now 
 the foolish words are blown away forever by the 
 breath of Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee ; 
 that a terrible cloud of political heresy rose from 
 the abyss, threatening to hide the light of the sun, 
 and under its darkness a rebellion was growing 
 into indefinable proportions ; now the atmosphere 
 is purer than ever before, and the insurrection is 
 vanishing away ; the country is cast into another 
 mould, and the gigantic system of wrong, which 
 had been the work of more than two centuries^ 
 is dashed down, we hope forever. And as to 
 himself personally : he was then scoffed at by the 
 proud as unfit for his station, and now, against the 
 
usage of later years and in spite of numerous com- 
 petitors, lie was the unbiassed and the undoubted 
 choice of the American people for a second term 
 of service. Through all the mad business of 
 treason he retained the sweetness of a most j)laca- 
 ble disposition ; and the slaughter of myriads of 
 the best on the battle field and the more terrible 
 destruction of our men in captivity by the slow 
 torture of exposure and starv^ation, had never 
 been able to provoke him into harboring one 
 vengeful feeling or one purpose of cruelty. 
 
 How shall the nation most completely show 
 its sorrow at Mr. Lincoln's death ? How shall it 
 best honor his memory ? Tiiere can be but one 
 answer. He was struck down when he was high- 
 est in its service, and in strict conformity with 
 duty w^as engaged in carrying out principles 
 affecting its life, its good name, and its relations 
 to the cause of freedom and the progress of man- 
 kind. Grief must take the character of action, 
 and breathe itself forth in the assertion of the 
 policy to which he fell a victim. The standard 
 which he held in his hand must be ujjlifted again 
 higher and more firmly than before, and must be 
 carried on to triumph. Above everything else, 
 his proclamation of the first day of January, 1863, 
 declaring throughout the parts of the country in 
 
rebellion the freedom of all persons who had been 
 held as slaves, must be aflSrmed and maintained. 
 
 Events, as they rolled onward, have removed 
 every doubt of the legality and binding force of 
 that proclamation. The country and the rebel 
 government have each laid claim to the public 
 service of the slave, and yet but one of the two 
 can have a rightful claim to such service. That 
 rightful claim belongs to the United States, be- 
 cause every one born on their soil, with the few 
 exceptions of the children of travellers and tran- 
 sient residents, owes them a primary allegiance. 
 Every one so born has been counted among those 
 represented in Congress; every slave has ever 
 been represented in Congress ;--imperfectly and 
 wrongly it may be— but still has been counted 
 and represented. The slave born on our soil 
 always owed allegiance to the General Govern- 
 ment. It may in time past have been a qualified 
 allegiance, manifested through his master, as the 
 allegiance of a ward through its guardian or of 
 an infant through its parent. But when the mas- 
 ter became false to his allegiance the slave stood 
 face to fiice with his country, and his allegiance, 
 which may before have been a qualified one, be- 
 came direct and immediate. His chains fell off, 
 and he rose at once in the presence of the na- 
 tion, bound, like the rest of us, to its defence. 
 
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 Mr. Lincoln's proclamation did but take notice 
 of the already existing right of the bondman to 
 freedom. The treason of the master made it a 
 public crime for the slave to continue his obe- 
 dience ; the treason of a State set free the collec- 
 tive bondmen of that St^te. 
 
 This doctrine is supported by the analogy of 
 precedents.. In the times of feudalism the trea- 
 son of the lord of the manor deprived him of his 
 serfs ; the spurious feudalism that existed among 
 us differs in many respects from the feudalism of 
 the middle ages ; but so far the precedent runs 
 parallel with the present case; for treason the 
 master then, for treason the master now, loses his 
 slaves. 
 
 In the middle ages, the sovereign appointed 
 another lord over the serfs and the land which 
 they cultivated ; in our day, the sovereign makes 
 them masters of their own persons, lords over 
 themselves. 
 
 It has been said that we are at war, and that 
 emancipation is not a belligerent right. The ob- 
 jection disappears before analysis. In a war be- 
 tween independent powers, the invading foreigner 
 invites to his standard all who will give him aid, 
 whether bond or free, and he rewards them ac- 
 cording to his ability and his pleasure with gifts 
 or freedom ; but when at a peace he withdraws 
 
from the invaded country, he must take his aiders 
 and comforters with him ; or if he leaves them 
 behind, where he has no court to enforce his de- 
 crees, he can give them no security, unless it be 
 by the stipulations of a treaty. In a civil war it 
 is altoorether different. There, when rebellion is 
 crushed, the old government is restored, and its 
 courts resume their jurisdiction. So it is with 
 us ; the United States have courts of their own, 
 that must punish the guilt of treason and vindi- 
 cate the freedom of persons whom the fact of 
 rebellion has set free. 
 
 ISTor may it be said, that because slavery ex- 
 isted in most of the States when the Union was 
 formed, it cannot rightfully be interfered with 
 now. A change has taken place, such as Madi- 
 son foresaw, and for which he pointed out the 
 remedy. The constitutions of States had been 
 transformed before the plotters of treason car- 
 ried them away into rebellion. When the Federal 
 Constitution was framed, general emancipation 
 was thought to be near ; and everywhere the re- 
 spective legislatures had authority, in the exer- 
 cise of their ordinary functions, to do away with 
 slavery ; since that time the attempt has been 
 made in what are called Slave States, to render the 
 condition of slavery perpetual ; and events have 
 proved with the clearness of demonstration, that 
 
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 a constitution which seeks to continue a caste of 
 hereditary bondmen through endless generations 
 is inconsistent with the existence of republican 
 institutions. 
 
 So, then, the new President and the people of 
 the United States must insist that the proclama- 
 tion of freedom shall stand as a reality. And, 
 moreover, the people must never cease to insist that 
 the Constitution shall be so amended as utterly to 
 prohibit slavery on any j^art of our soil for evermore. 
 
 Alas ! that a State in our vicinity should with- 
 hold its assent to this last beneficent measure ; its 
 refusal was an encouragement to our enemies 
 equal to the gain of a pitched battle ; and delays 
 the only hopeful method of pacification. The re- 
 moval of the cause of the rebellion is not only 
 demanded by justice; it is the policy of mercy, 
 making room for a wider clemency ; it is the part 
 of order against a chaos of controversy ; its suc- 
 cess brings with it true reconcilement, a lasting 
 peace, a continuous growth of confidence through 
 an assimilation of the social condition. Here is 
 the fitting expression of the mourning of to-day. 
 
 And let no lover of his country say that this 
 warning is uncalled for. The cry is delusive that 
 slavery is dead. Even now it is nerving itself for 
 a fresh struggle for continuance. The last winds 
 from the South waft to us the sad intelhgence 
 
that a man, who bad surrounded himself with 
 the glory of the most brilliant and most varied 
 achievements, who but a week ago was counted 
 with affectionate pride among the greatest bene- 
 factors of his country and the ablest generals of 
 all time, has initiated the exercise of more than 
 the whole power of the Executive, and under the 
 name of peace has, perhaps unconsciously, re 
 vived slavery and given the hope of security 
 and political power to traitors from the Chesa- 
 peake to the Rio Grande. Why could he not 
 remember the dying advice of Washington, never 
 to draw the sword but for self-defence or the 
 rights of his country, and when drawn, never to 
 sheathe it till its work should be accomplished ? ' 
 And yet from this ill-considered act, which the 
 people with one united voice condemn, no great 
 evil will follow save the shadow on his own fame, 
 and that also Ave hope will pass away. The- 
 individual, even in the greatness of military glory, 
 sinks into insignificance before the resistless move- 
 ments of ideas in the history of man. No one 
 can turn back or stay the march of Providence. 
 
 No sentiment of despair may mix with our sor- 
 row. We owe it to the memory of the dead, we owe 
 it to the cause of popular liberty throughout the 
 world, that the sudden crime which has taken the 
 life of the President of the United States shall not 
 1* 
 
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 produce the least impediment in the smooth course 
 of public affairs. This great city, in the midst of 
 unexampled emblems of deeply seated grief, has 
 sustained itself with composure and magnanimity. 
 It has nobly done its part in guarding against the 
 derangement of business or the slightest shock to 
 public credit. The enemies of the republic put 
 it to the severest trial ; but the voice of faction 
 has not been heard ; doubt and desj)ondency have 
 been unknown. In serene majesty the country 
 rises in the beauty and strength and hope of 
 youth, and proves to the world the quiet energy 
 and the durability of institutions growing out of 
 the reason and affections of the people. 
 
 Heaven has willed it that the United States 
 shall live. The nations of the earth cannot spare 
 them. All the worn-out aristocracies of Europe 
 saw in the spurious feudalism of slaveholding their 
 strongest outj)ost, and banded themselves together 
 with the deadly enemies of our national life. If the 
 Old World will discuss the respective advantages 
 of oligarchy or equality ; of the union of church 
 and state, or the rightful freedom of religion ; of 
 land accessible to the many or of laud monopo- 
 lized by an ever-decreasing number of the few, 
 the United States must live to control the decision 
 by their quiet and unobtrusive example. It has 
 often and truly been observed that the trust and 
 
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 affection of the masses gather naturally round an 
 individual ; if the inquiry is made whether the 
 man so trusted and beloved shall elicit from the 
 reason of the people enduring institutions of their 
 own, or shall sequester political power for a super- 
 intending dynasty, the United States must live to 
 solve the problem. If a question is raised on the 
 resjDective merits of Timoleon or Julius Csesar, of 
 Washington or Napoleon, the United States must 
 be there to call to mind that there were twelve 
 Cs8sars, most of them the opprobrium of the 
 human race, and to contrast with them the line of 
 American Presidents. 
 
 The duty of the hour is incomplete, our mourn- 
 ing is insincere, if, while we express unwavering 
 trust in the great princijDles that underlie our 
 government, we do not also give our support to 
 the man to whom the people have intrusted its 
 administration. 
 
 Andrew Johnson is novv% by the Constitution, 
 the President of the United States, and he stands 
 before the world as the most conspicuous repre- 
 sentative of the industrial classe^i. Left an orphan 
 at four years old, poverty and toil were his steps 
 to honor. His youth was not passed in the halls 
 of colleges ; nevertheless he has received a thor- 
 ough political education in statesmanship in the 
 school of the people and by long experience of 
 
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 public life. A village functionary ; member suc- 
 cessively of each branch of the Tennessee Legisla- 
 ture, hearing with a thrill of joy the words, ^' The 
 Union, it must be preserved ; " a representative in 
 Congress for successive years; Governor of the 
 great State of Tennessee ; ap]3roved as its Gov- 
 ernor by reelection ; he was at the opening of the 
 rebellion a Senator from that State in Congress. 
 Then at the Capitol, when Senators, un rebuked 
 by the Government, sent word by telegram to 
 seize forts and arsenals, he alone from that South- 
 ern region told them what the Government did 
 not dare to tell them, that they were traitors, and 
 deserved the punishment of treason. Undismayed 
 by a perpetual pui-pose of public enemies to take 
 his life, bearing up against the still greater trial 
 of the persecution of his wife and children, in due 
 time he went back to his State, determined to 
 restore it to the Union, or die with the x\merican 
 flag for his winding sheet. And now, at the call 
 of the United States, he has returned to Washing- 
 ton as a conqueror, with Tennessee as a Free State 
 for his trophy. It remains for him to consummate 
 the vindication of the Union. 
 
 To that Union Abraham Lincoln has fallen a 
 martyr. His death, which was meant to sever it 
 beyond repair, binds it more closely and more 
 firmly than ever. The blow aimed at him, 
 
IS 
 
 was aimed nofc at the native of Kentucky, not at 
 the citizen of Illinois, but at the man who, as 
 President, in the executive branch of the Gov- 
 ernment, stood as the representative of every man 
 in the United States. The object of the ci'ime 
 was the life of the whole people ; and it wounds 
 the affections of the whole people. From Maine 
 to the southwest boundary on the Pacific, it makes 
 us one. The country may have needed an imper- 
 ishable grief to touch its inmost feeling. The grave 
 that receives the remains of Lincoln, receives 
 the costly sacrifice to the Union ; the monument 
 which will rise over his body will bear witness to 
 a the Union ; his enduring memory will assist dur- 
 
 ^ ing countless ages to bind the States together, and 
 
 to incite to the love of our one undivided, indi- 
 visible country. Peace to the ashes of our de- 
 parted friend, the friend of his country and his 
 race. He was happy in his life, for he was the 
 restorer of the republic; he was happy in his 
 death, for his martyrdom will plead forever for 
 the Union of the States and the freedom of man. 
 
ODE 
 
 FOR THE FUNERAL OF ABRAHAM LLNCOLK. 
 BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
 
 On, slow to smite and swift to spare, 
 Gentle and merciful and just ! 
 
 Who, in the fear of God, did'st bear 
 The sword of power — a nation's trust, 
 
 In sorrow by thy bier I stand, 
 Amid the awe that hushes all, 
 
 And speak the anguish of a land 
 
 That shook with horror at thy fall. 
 
 Thy task is done — the bond are free; 
 
 We bear thee to an honored grave, 
 Whose noblest monument shall be 
 
 The broken fetters of the slave. 
 
 Pure was thy life ; its bloody close 
 Hath placed thee with the sons of light, 
 
 Among the noble host of those 
 
 Who perished in the cause of right. 
 
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S 
 
 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 
 
 January 1st, 1863. 
 
 Wheeeas, On the twenty-second day of Sep- 
 tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was 
 issued by the President of the United States, con- 
 taining, among other things, the following, to wit . 
 
 "That on the first day of January, in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any 
 State, or designated part of a State, the people 
 whereof shall then be in rebellion against the 
 United States, shall be thenceforth and forever 
 free, and the Executive Government of the United 
 States, including the military and naval authori- 
 ties thereof, will recognize and maintain the free- 
 dom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to 
 
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 repress such persons, or any of tliem, m any effort 
 they may make for their actual freedom. 
 
 " That the Executive will, on the first day of 
 January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the 
 States, and parts of States, if any, in which the peo- 
 ple therein respectively shall then be in rebellion 
 against the United States, and the fact that any 
 State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be 
 in good faith represented in the Congress of the 
 United States, by members chosen thereto at elec- 
 tions wherein a majority of the qualified voters of 
 such States shall have participated, shall, in the* 
 absence of strong countervailing testimon}^, be 
 deemed conclusive evidence that such State and 
 the people thereof, are not then in rebellion 
 against the United States." 
 
 Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President 
 of the United States, by virtue of the power in 
 me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the army 
 and navy of the United States in time of actual 
 armed rebellion against the authority and gov- 
 ernment of the United States, and as a fit and 
 necessary war measure for suppressing said rebel- 
 lion, do, on this first day of January, in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six- 
 
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 ty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to 
 do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one 
 hundred days from the day of the first above- 
 mentioned order, designate as the States and parts 
 of States wherein the j)eople thereof respectively 
 are this day in rebellion against the United States, 
 the following, to wit : Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, 
 except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, 
 Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascen- 
 sion, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. 
 Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city 
 of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, 
 Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and 
 Virginia, except the forty-eight counties desig- 
 nated as West Virginia, and also the counties of 
 Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, 
 York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the 
 cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which 
 excepted parts are for the present left precisely as 
 if this proclamation were not issued. 
 
 And by virtue of the power and for the 2:)ur- 
 pose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all per- 
 sons held as slaves, within said designated States 
 and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be 
 free, and that the Executive Government of the 
 
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 United States, including the military and naval 
 authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain 
 the freedom of said persons. 
 
 And I hereby enjoin upon the people so 
 declared to be free, to abstain from all violence 
 unless in necessary self-defence, and I recommend 
 to them, that in all cases, when allowed, they labor 
 faithfully for reasonable wages. 
 
 And I further declare and make known 
 that such persons of suitable condition, will be 
 received into the armed service of the United 
 States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and 
 other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in 
 said service. 
 
 And upon this act, sincerely believed to be 
 an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, 
 upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate 
 judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of 
 Almighty God. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 
 hand and caused the seal of the United States to 
 be affixed. 
 
 Done at the City of Washington, this 
 
 [l. s.] first day of January, in the year of 
 our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
 
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 and sixty-tbree, and of the independence 
 of the United States of America the 
 eighty-seventh. 
 
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 By the President. 
 
 Wm. H. Seward, 
 
 Secretary of State, 
 January 1, 1863. 
 
20 
 
 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S 
 
 SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 
 
 March 4tli, 1865. 
 »»> 
 
 Fellow Couis^TRYMEiS" : — At this second ap- 
 pearing to take the oatli of the Presidential office, 
 there is less occasion for an extended address than 
 there was at first. Then a statement of a course 
 to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. 
 
 Now, at the expiration of four years, during 
 which public declarations have been constantly 
 called forth on every point and phase of the great 
 contest which still absorbs the attention and en- 
 grosses the energies of the nation, little that is 
 new could be presented. 
 
 The progress of our arms, upon which all else 
 chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as 
 to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory 
 and encouraging to all. With high hopes for the 
 future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. 
 
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 On tlie occasion corresponding to this, four 
 years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed 
 to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ; all 
 souo^ht to avoid it. 
 
 While the Inaugural Address was being de- 
 livered from this place, devoted altogether to 
 saving the Union without war, insurgent agents 
 were in the city seeking to destroy it without 
 war ; seeking to dissolve the Union and divide 
 the effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated 
 war, but one of them would make war rather 
 than let the nation survive, and the other would 
 accept war rather than let it perish ; and the war 
 came. 
 
 One eighth of the whole population were col- 
 ored slaves, not distributed generally over the 
 Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. 
 
 These slaves constituted a peculiar and pow- 
 erful interest. All knew that this interest was 
 somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, 
 perpetuate, and extend this interest was the 
 object for which the insurgents would rend the 
 Union by war, while the Government claimed no 
 right to more than restrict the territorial enlarge- 
 ment of it. 
 
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 Neither party expected for tlie war the mag- 
 nitude or the duration which it has ah-eady 
 attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of 
 the conflict might cease with, or e^en before the 
 conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an 
 easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and 
 astounding. 
 
 Both read the same Bible and pray to the 
 same God, and each invokes His aid against the 
 other. It may seem strange that any men should 
 dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing 
 their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; 
 but let us judge not, that we may not be judged. 
 The prayer of both could not be answered. That 
 of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty 
 has His own purposes. " Woe unto the world 
 because of offences, for it must needs be that 
 offences come, but woe unto the man by whom 
 the offence cometh." If we shall suppose that 
 American slavery is one of these offences which, 
 in the Providence of God, must needs come, but 
 which having continued through his appointed 
 time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives 
 to both North and South this terrible war as the 
 woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall 
 
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 we discern therein any departure from those de- 
 vine attributes which the believers in a livin^r 
 God always ascribe to Him ? 
 
 Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, 
 that this mighty scourge of vv\ar may speedily pass 
 away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all 
 the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred 
 and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, 
 and until every drop of blood drawn with the 
 lash shall be paid by another drawn with the 
 sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so 
 still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord 
 are true and righteous altogether. 
 
 With malice toward no one, Vv^th charity for 
 all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to 
 see the right, let us strive on to finish the work 
 we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care 
 for him who shall have borne the battle, and for 
 his widow and his orphans, to do all which may 
 achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among 
 ourselves and with all nations. 
 
THE AMERICAN 
 
 EDUGATIONM. MONTHLY. 
 
 " It should le read in every family. '^'^ 
 
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