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Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln

by George Bancroft

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

Excerpts:

That God rules in the affairs of men is as certain as any truth of physical science. On the great moving power which is from the beginning hangs the world of the senses and the world of thought and action. Eternal wisdom marshals the great procession of the nations, working in patient continuity through the ages, never halting and never abrupt, encompassing all events in its oversight, and ever effecting its will, though mortals may slumber in apathy or oppose with madness.