We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment, and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.
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- The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln; source text line 5121
- The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln; source text line 5121
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