… With malice toward none; with charity for all;
with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are
in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him
who shall have borne the battle, and for his
widow, and his orphan—to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace,
among ourselves, and with all nations.
— President Abraham Lincoln, 1865
This statement by President Lincoln contributed
to disagreements over the
(1) continuation of a military draft
(2) provision of free land to settlers
(3) negotiations with foreign nations after the
Civil War
(4) treatment of the former Confederate states
and their leaders