Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1865 To General Van Allen
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
April 14, 1865
GENERAL VAN ALLEN:
I intend to adopt the advice of my friends and use due precaution....
I thank you for the assurance you give me that I shall be
supported by conservative men like yourself, in the efforts I may
make to restore the Union, so as to make it, to use your language, a
Union of hearts and hands as well as of States.
