Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Lincoln and the 2012 Campaign: Not a Fit Part 9

A Third Victory Speech:

In November 1864, “Having served four years in the depths of a great, and unended national peril, I can view this call to a second term, in nowise more flatteringly to myself, than as an expression of the public judgment that I may better finish a difficult work in which I have labored from the first, than could anyone less severely schooled to the task.”

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