A Just and Generous Nation by Harold Holzer

Author:Harold Holzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2015-10-01T16:19:26+00:00

Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.”

In a way, Lincoln had long capitalized on the growing anger in the North against the South for perpetuating its unjust war. But he was not alone in giving voice to it. In the last year of the war, more and more Northerners expressed their feelings through the harsh words of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” sung to the tune of the antislavery anthem “John Brown’s Body”:

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