Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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us need fear that the future will fail to vindicate our integrity. When those aregone that fought the good fight, and philosophy comes to strike the balance-sheet, it will be shown that the makers of the Constitution left the relationof the States to the Federal Government and of the Federal Governmentto the States open to a double construction. The battle was long thoughunequal. Let us believe that it was needful to make us a Nation. Let uslook upon it as into a mirror, seeing not the desolation of the past, but theradiance of the present; and in the heroes of the New North and the NewSouth who contested in generous rivalry up the fire-swept steep of ElCaney and side by side re-emblazoned the national character in the watersabout Corregidor Island and under the walls of Cavite, let us beholdhostages for the Old North and the Old South blent together in a Unionthat recks not of the four points of the compass.—Colonel Henry Wattersonof Louisville, Kentucky, in The Cosmopolitan. MUM I
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