with malice toward none, with charity toward all

As Kitty Eisele reports on NPR, some “new” photographs of Lincoln’s second inaugural address have emerged; they were there all along, but misfiled at the Library of Congress in a Ulysses Grant folder. The pictures show Lincoln delivering what may be his best speech, and also the African-American troops in Union uniforms who marched from the White House to the Capitol that damp day.

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