In my humble opinion, one of the greatest leaders our country has ever known was Abraham Lincoln. I continue to hope for a day when men and women of God-given rank in our country would present to the populous such honor, integrity, character, strength, and faith as Mr. Lincoln. The following letter was written to a widow and grieving mother who lost the men in her life and home to the Civil War. Today, I anguish over whom to cast my vote, for all the names on the ballet seem to represent something so different that true God-fearing grit and ability to actually lead our country out of such a current furry and downward spiral in so many aspects. Someone has to make the tough choices that truly free the people, even if someone in the dark shadows of an ally are preparing a bullet in return of such a choice.
Letter:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, November 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
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