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Title: Abraham Lincoln's executive routine
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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n have decided to fraternize(with our domestic enemy eitherwithout waiting to hear fromyou our remonstrances and ourwarnings, or after having heardthem. War in defense of nationallife is not immoral and war indefense of independence is an in-evitable part of the discipline ofnations . . . The dispute willbe between the European andthe American branches of theBritish race. All who belong tothat race will especially depre-cate it, as they ought. It maywell be believed that men ofevery race and kindred will de-plore it. A war not unlike itbetween the same parties oc-curred at the close of the lastcentury. Europe atoned by for-ty years of suffering for the er-I ror that Great Britain made inprovoking that contest. LINCOLNS CORRECTIONS Sewards version read: Ourremonstrances and our wrongs.Lincoln substituted—Our re-monstrances and our warnings.. . . Europe atoned for fortyyears of suffering for the crimewas Sewards way of putting it.Lincoln wrote: Forty years ofsuffering for the error. i
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Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation .----. Dr. Louis A. Warren, Editor,Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 489 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA August 22, 1938 LINCOLNS DIPLOMACY At no time in the history of the nation were diplomaticrelations under such strain as during the Civil War. Thenation went safely through the struggle without foreignintervention, largely because there was a diplomat in thepresidents chair. The following excerpts give some ideaof Abraham Lincolns tact and skill in handling even theminor difficulties which confronted him. Please do not ruin us on punctilio. I name none lest I wrong others by omission. In a word, in every locality we should look beyond ournoses. Let all be so quiet that the adversary shall not benotified. Be careful to give no offense, and keep cool under allcircumstances. Such exclusive and inflexible plan would surely becomea new entanglement. It is a case, as appears to me, in which

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