With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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In his lengthy and detailed address to Congress, Lincoln outlined the events that ignited the war. He also cast considerable light on his own view of the fundamental purpose of government. All who listened knew that the time for action had arrived, and senators and representatives voted in unison to increase by twenty-five percent the president’s request for both money and men to fight the war.

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In his lengthy and detailed address to Congress, Lincoln outlined the events that ignited the war. He also cast considerable light on his own view of the fundamental purpose of government. All who listened knew that the time for action had arrived, and senators and representatives voted in unison to increase by twenty-five percent the president’s request for both money and men to fight the war.