Abraham Lincoln

“ I do not believe that any compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union, is now possible. All that I learn tends to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is its military—its army. In any compromise we should waste time, which the enemy would improve to our disadvantage ”

“ There will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue and clenched teeth and steady eye and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while, I fear, there will be some white ones unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have striven to hinder it.—August, 1863.
WOMAN’S CONDUCT DURING THE WAR
If all that has been said since the creation in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice.—March, ’64. ”