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ConcordiaIn Roman mythology, Concordia was the goddess of agreement and understanding. Her oldest temple was on the Forum Romanum. It was built in 367 BC by Camilus[?]. The Roman Senate often met there.In art, Concordia was depicted sitting, wearing a long cloak and holding onto a sacrificial bowl and a cornucopia. Sometimes, she is shown standing between two members of the Royal House shaking hands.
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from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war,
seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.
than let the nation.html">nation survive; and the other would accept war rather
generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.
that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen,
insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed
which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause
should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less
to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.
assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces;
could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because
to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose
providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued
gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due
departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a
do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in
to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds;
and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just
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