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This
painting stands as a memorial to President Abraham Lincoln who said in
his Second Annual Address to Congress on December 1, 1862, "In
giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable
alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or
meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this
could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way
which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever
bless."
A Grateful Nation is the seventh painting in Rod Chase's
Foundations of Freedom series.
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