… With malice toward none; with charity for all;

with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see

the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are

in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him

who shall have borne the battle, and for his

widow, and his orphan—to do all which may

achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace,

among ourselves, and with all nations.

— President Abraham Lincoln, 1865

This statement by President Lincoln contributed

to disagreements over the

(1) continuation of a military draft

(2) provision of free land to settlers

(3) negotiations with foreign nations after the

Civil War

(4) treatment of the former Confederate states

and their leaders