. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . or modified. But something besides or in addition to argumentis needful — to meet and remove prejudice and pas-sion in the South, and despondency and fear in theEast. Some words of affection — some of calm and cheer-ful confidence. * Mr. Seward only suggested two importantchanges: (i) To omit the reference to theChicago platform mentioned in his letter, withthe announcement that the President would * Unpublished MS. For the copy of this letter andother valuable manuscripts, we are indebted to HonFrederick W. Seward. i LINCOLNS IN A UG URA TL
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . or modified. But something besides or in addition to argumentis needful — to meet and remove prejudice and pas-sion in the South, and despondency and fear in theEast. Some words of affection — some of calm and cheer-ful confidence. * Mr. Seward only suggested two importantchanges: (i) To omit the reference to theChicago platform mentioned in his letter, withthe announcement that the President would * Unpublished MS. For the copy of this letter andother valuable manuscripts, we are indebted to HonFrederick W. Seward. i LINCOLNS IN A UG URA TLON. •75 follow the principles therein declared. (2)Instead of a declaradon of intention to re-claim, hold, occupy, and possess the placesand property belonging to the Ciovernment,to speak ambiguously about the exercise of tentious diction. The literary styles of and Mr. Lincoln diftered Seward was strongly addicted to and un-usually felicitous in long, sonorous sentences,amplifying his thought to general application. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. power, and to hint rather at forbearance. Theother modifications in his list were simplechanges of phraseology — aftecting only thestyle, but changing no argument or proposi-tion of policy. Whether these were on thewhole an improvement depends perhaps uponthe taste of the reader and critic, whether heprefers a full and formal or a direct and sen- and to philosophic breadth. Mr. Lincoln likedto condense his idea into a short sentence,with legal conciseness and specific point. Inthe present crisis Mr. Sewards policy, as an-nounced in his 12th of January speech, was to meet prejudice with conciliation, exac-tion with concession which ^surrenders noprinciple, and violence with the right hand of 276 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. peace.* Mr. Lincolns policy was, withoutprejudice or passion to state frankly and main-tain firmly the position and doctrines assumedby the American people in the late presiden-tial election. Mr. Seward be
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