“For we are not enemies, but brethren.”

As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): pp. 3,667–3,668
Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

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