It is now commended that you give
legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one, that you place at
the control of the government for this work at least 400,000 men and
$400,000,000. That number of men is about one-tenth of those of proper ages
within the regions where all are willing to engage and the sum is less than a
twenty-third part of the money value owned by the men who seem ready to devote
the whole. (Abraham Lincoln, first message to Congress, July 4, 1861, in Frank
Williams Prescott, "Tariff
Legislation 1859-1862: Its Relation to Protection and Political Activities"
[M.A. Thesis; University of Wisconsin, 1921], 68)
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