"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsman’s 250 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 3,000 years ago, so still must be said: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strike 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 orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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President Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural address, March 4th, 1865.
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The Civil War (documentary)
The Civil War is a nine-episode series created by Ken Burns about The American Civil War, which was produced by PBS affiliate WETA-TV (with Burns company) and first screened in 1990. The narrator was David McCullough.
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