Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 9781493004119, 9781493018819, 1493018817

"Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by ma

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Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865
 9781493004119, 9781493018819, 1493018817

Table of contents :
Friends in power. A self-immolating devotion to duty
Lacking in the quality of leadership
A problematical character, full of contradictions
Good and true friends
The only way to make spaniels civil is to whip them
Who will he treat with, or how commence the work?
The wise men are those who would end it
I do not think I would get back
As once a friend and still, I hope, not an enemy --
We are but one people. A treachery unworthy of men of honor
A new channel for the bitter waters
We are on the eve of an internal revolution
A determined stand ought to be made for peace
Is there nothing that will degrade a man?
You will not assume to definitely consummate anything
I was never so much disappointed in my life
With evident indications of high gratification
There has been nothing we could do for our country --
A suffering and distracted country. It is more dangerous to make peace than to make war
You are all against me
Thank God we know it now
To serve a people in spite of themselves
It is the province of statesmanship to consider of these things
With cheerful confidence in the result
Allow Judge Campbell to see this, but do not make it public
The rebels are our countrymen again
I am as one walking in a dream.

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