Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 31
end of all things,and war and strife the worst of all things, and hadacted up to their belief, we should have saved hundreds 6 Book of Patriotism of thousands of lives ; we should have saved hundredsof millions of dollars. Moreover, besides saving allthe blood and treasure we then lavished, we… … The Men Who Upheld the Wisdom of Lincoln. We could have avoided all this suffering simply byshrinking from strife. And if we had thus avoided it,we should have shown that we were weaklings, andthat we were unfit to stand among the great nationsof the earth. Thank God for the iron in the bloodof our…
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