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  2. Feb 2026
  3. Jan 2026
    1. tells

      It saying there are different type of situations where someone might use a different sounding tone then one would use normally. Such as excitement for something fun, a low and steady type when being serious, or sarcasm when irritated.

  4. May 2025
    1. The American people will, in any great emergency, be true to themselves

      I think what he is saying here is that American people have the ability to come together in times of crisis.

    2. Nevertheless, we must not be asked to say that the South was right in the rebellion, or to say the North was wrong. We must not be asked to put no difference between those who fought for the Union and those who fought against it, or between loyalty and treason…

      I think this saying we can't justify who was right or wrong in this fight.

    3. . Though I have worn the yoke of bondage, and have no love for what are called the good old times of slavery, there is in my heart no taint of malice toward the ex-slaveholders. Many of them were not sinners above all others, but were in some sense the slaves of the slave system, for slavery was a power in the State greater than the State itself. With the aid of a few brilliant orators and plotting conspirators, it sundered the bonds of the Union and inaugurated war….

      I think this line is so sad because of what they went through as slaves where as most of them were beaten, starved, raped and forced to work in bad conditions. Then being asked to not hate their slave owner because it was just how it was.

    4. Though I have worn the yoke of bondage, and have no love for what are called the good old times of slavery, there is in my heart no taint of malice toward the ex-slaveholders. Many of them were not sinners above all others, but were in some sense the slaves of the slave system, for slavery was a power in the State greater than the State itself.

      This line saying they don't feel no hate towards their ex-slave holder is so sad to me because of everything awful the slaves went through, it's like saying it was just the way it was for them.