Subject: My Closing Message
"We are not enemies, but friends.

"We must not be enemies.

"Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

A. Lincoln
eightscore and four years ago

-- sutton
(yes, well aware that the cannons started six weeks later. But still)