Abraham Lincoln, on July 4, 1861, states his belief that the then-current conflict between the Southern and Northern states would be "a short and decisive one."
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Abraham Lincoln, first message to Congress, July 4, 1861, repr. Frank Williams Prescott, "Tariff Legislation 1859-1862: Its Relation to Protection and Political Activities" (M.A. Thesis; University of Wisconsin, 1921), 68
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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It is now commended that you give legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one, that you place at the control of the government for this work at least 400,000 men and $400,000,000. That number of men is about one-tenth of those of proper ages within the regions where all are willing to engage and the sum is less than a twenty-third part of the money value owned by the men who seem ready to devote the whole.
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