LINCOLN AND PACIFISTS
During the American Ciril War President Lincoln i;avo tho fnllowincf reyiy to certain kindly and well-meaning people who caU<?<l for premature peace, says the "Daily Mail." "The issue before us is distinct, eiraple, and inflexible. It is an issue which cm only bo tried by war and settled by victory. The war will ceaso on the part of this Government whenever it shall have ceased on thn part of tlio.»B who benan it. . . . We accepted war rather tbnn let the nation perish." I AVhon another European Power did make such sugßo'tion* t.'ii-- was llr. Sewartl'g reply mi behalf iif l.iiifoln: "This . Goverrjapnt has not the. least thought of rcliiKiilishing the trust which hns been confided to it by the nation under the most solemn of all political sanctions: and if it had ;ir.y such thought it would still have abundant rc-usoiis In know thai: peace 'so propound) . . . would be immediately, unreservedly, and indgnantly rejected, by tho Ameril<B9 settle/*
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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