A Message sent to Congress (153 years ago) -- by then-President Abraham LIncoln during Civil War's first months

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"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today -- it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us." --Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.