“We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.”
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August 22, 1864 Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-fourth Ohio Regiment
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