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Lay Aside All Rancor, All Bitter Sectional Feeling, And To Make Your Places In The Ranks Of Those Who Will Bring About A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished—a Reunited Country.

Our Armies Were In As Much Chaos In Victory As Theirs In Defeat.

It Is A Duty We Owe To Posterity To See That Our Children Shall Know The Virtues, And Rise Worthy Of Their Sires.

The War...must Go On Till The Last Man Of This Generation Falls In His Tracks...unless You Acknowledge Our Right To Self-government. We Are Not Fighting For Slavery. We Are Fighting For Independence,and That, Or Extermination, We Will Have.

My Own Convictions As To Negro Slavery Are Strong. It Has Its Evils And Abuses...we Recognize The Negro As God And God's Book And God's Laws, In Nature, Tell Us To Recognize Him - Our Inferior, Fitted Expressly For Servitude...you Cannot Transform The Negro Into Anything One-tenth As Useful Or As Good As What Slavery Enables Them To Be.