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His Soul Marching On
JOHN BROWN'S body lies a-mould'ring In the grave,
John Ero'ivn's boJy lies a-nionldVing In the grave,
Julin Brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave,
But hib soul goes marching on.
He raptured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true,
And he frightened old Virginia till she trembled through
and through,
They Ini::u hiivi f-^r a fraitnr\ themselves the traitor crew.
But iiis bGul gues maieLIng en.
Fooling the People
You may fool some of the people a!! the time, you may foo! all the
people some of the time, but you never can fool ail the people all
the time. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Stands Alone
r-piiE tragic events of the future were mercifully hidden. Mr
JL Lincoln was planning yet another generous offer to shorten the
period of conflict. He remembered that the rebels, notwithstanding
all their offences and errors, were yet American citizens, members of
the same nation,, brothers of the same blood. He remembered, too,
that the object of the war was the maintenance of one Government
and one Union. Not only must hostilities cease, but dissension^
suspicion, and estrangement be eradicated. Filled with such thoughts
and purposes, he designed a new proposal as a peace offering to the
States in rebellion, a liberal indemnity for the loss of State property
on absolute cessation of the war and the abolition of slavery by the
Southern States.
He called his Cabinet together and read to them the draft of a
proclamation offering the Southern States four hundred million
dollarSj a sum equal to the cost of the war for 200 days.
This was indeed going to the extreme of magnanimity, and it
turned out that he was more humane and liberal than his con-
stitutional advisers. The indorsement in his own handwriting on the
manuscript draft records the result of his appeal and suggestion :
February J, 186-5. Today these papersy which explain themselves,
were drawn up and submitted to the Cabinet,, and unanimously dis-
approved % them.—A. Lincoln.
With the words, " You are all opposed to me, sadly uttered*
the President folded up the paper and ceased the discussion^
Adapted from a Life qf Lincoln
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