Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America Quotes

“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary wrong; and the expulsion of this domestic anomaly opens to the renovated nation a career of unthought-of dignity and glory. Henceforth our country has a moral unity as the land of free labor. The”
― George Bancroft, Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America

“Palmerston did nothing that will endure; LINCOLN finished a work which all time cannot overthrow. Palmerston”
― George Bancroft, Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America