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We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember, with equal admiration, those who struck at the nation's life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I am no minister of malice . . . I would not repel the repentant, but may . . . my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I forget the difference between the parties to that . . . bloody conflict . . . I say that, if this war is to be forgotten, I ask, in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember?