Note 434 — Chapter XXVIII · LINCOLN, SEWARD, AND THE UNION 1860-1861
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Ibid., pp. 343, 344, and note.
For facsimile of the paragraph as written by Seward and rewritten by Lincoln, see Ibid., Vol. 3, p. 336. For the entire address, with all suggested and adopted changes, see Ibid., Vol. 3, pp. 327 to 344.
At Seward's dinner table on the evening of March 4, the peroration of the inaugural address was especially commended by A. Oakey Hall, afterward mayor of New York, who quickly put it into rhyme:
"The mystic chords of Memory That stretch from patriot graves; From battle-fields to living hearts, Or hearth-stones freed from slaves, An Union chorus shall prolong, And grandly, proudly swell, When by those better angels touched Who in all natures dwell."