Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive 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 for his orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
THE END.
Transcriber's Notes:
Table of Contents Part VI:
A section of Tributes beginning on Page 191 is not included in the table. Unchanged.
Table of Contents Part VII:
A section called 'Lincoln, The Tender-Hearted' by H. W. Botton should be by H. W. Bolton. Changed.
Table of Contents Part IX:
A section called "'Fooling' the People" on page 360 is not included in the table of contents. Unchanged.
Table of Contents Part IX:
A section called 'Lincoln's confab with a Committee on Grant's Whisky' is not included in the table of contents. Unchanged.
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more definite than a similarity of Christain names
Typo: Changed to [Christian].
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answer inpregnable with facts.
Spelling of inpregnable is probably correct for that time. Unchanged.