<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420865" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To William H. Seward</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">STATESMAN, I thank thee! and, if yet dissent<br>Mingles, reluctant, with my large content,<br>I cannot censure what was nobly meant.<br>But, while constrained to hold even Union less<br>Than Liberty and Truth and Righteousness,<br>I thank thee in the sweet and holy name<br>Of peace, for wise calm words that put to shame<br>Passion and party. Courage may be shown<br>Not in defiance of the wrong alone;<br>He may be bravest who, unweaponed, bears<br>The olive branch, and, strong in justice, spares<br>The rash wrong-doer, giving widest scope<br>To Christian charity and generous hope.<br>If, without damage to the sacred cause<br>Of Freedom and the safeguard of its laws —<br>If, without yielding that for which alone<br>We prize the Union, thou canst save it now<br>From a baptism of blood, upon thy brow<br>A wreath whose flowers no earthly soil have known,<br>Woven of the beatitudes, shall rest,<br>And the peacemaker be forever blest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420865" data-title="To William H. Seward de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="STATESMAN, I thank thee! and, if yet dissent Mingles, reluctant, with my large content, I cannot censure what was nobly meant. But, while constrained to hold even Union less Than Liberty and Truth and Righteousness, I thank thee in the sweet and h..."></div> </div> </div>

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