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Excerpt from The Journal of American History, 1909, Vol. 3: Relating Life Stories of Men and Events That Have Entered Into the Building of the Western Continent; Original Researches Into Authoritative Sources; American, British and European Archives; Private Journals, Diaries and Hitherto Unpublished Documents This centenary of Abraham Lincoln, and the centenary of Jefferson Davis, which occurred nine months ago, must either ennoble or belittle American character. Exaltation of one, fed on the life-blood of the other, is unworthy of both. The conflict has been fought; the economic problem is no longer upon us; we owe to them both the solution for all ages. The price has been paid - terrible, overwhelming, beyond all human power to compute. The words of Randall come to meh - that man of magnificent courage, who, lost in the abyss of relentless Fate, rose above his own sorrows and sufferings and inscribed these lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.