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Title: Lincoln : by friend and foe
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903 Hall, A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey), 1826-1898 Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886 Cole, Robert J., ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: London New York : Gold Medal Library
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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the very first overture of peace fromany people of the Southern States, Mr.Lincoln is now so far from being inclinedto a full and general amnesty that he im-poses a new and impossible condition ofpeace. An impossible condition, we say,not merely because it is impossible forus with all our armies to compel theabandonment of slavery, but because itis much worse than impossible for thosewho control the armies now at warwith us to assume to themselves and thentransfer to Mr. Lincoln the control of asubject over which neither of them hasthe least authority either in the federalor rebel constitutions. Instead of thatprofessed approval of an amnesty, henow spurns the very first lispings ofpeace. A little more than a year ago Mr. Lin-coln seized the occasion of the meeting ofthe Republican Convention at Springfieldto declare himself, still more emphaticallythan ever, as waging the war exclusivelyto save the Union. He had been chargedwith waging it for abolition purposes,and his reply was:—
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THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTYPresident Abe: What a nice White House thiswould be if it were not for the blacks. —From Punch, May 11, 1861 BY FRIEND AND FOE 77 You say you will not fight to free ne-groes. Some of them seem willing to fightfor you. But no matter; fight you thenexclusively to save the Union. I issuedthe proclamation on purpose to aid youin saving the Union. Whenever youshall have conquered al! resistance to theUnion, if I shall urge you to continuefighting, it will be an apt time then foryou to declare you will not fight to freenegroes. President Lincoln has now justified thedeclaration that the Northern people willnot fight to free negroes. He makesabolition the yoke-fellow of Union, anddoes urge the continuance of fighting forother purposes than the only one which islawful or attainable. He thus falsifiesevery pledge, disregards every declara-tion, and violates his official oath. Collate this To whom it may concernletter with Mr. Lincolns past declara-tions and avowls, and

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