Excerpt from Address to the People of the United States: The Great Rebellion, Causes Progress and Remedy Time has proved the truth of their predictions. Many singular coincidents have occurred to encourage me in writing the addresses. After writing about Washington in my closet, I was requested to see three fine clusters of white blossoms on a Washington apple tree. At the first view I called them blossoms of peace. Asked if there was another Washington, and gathered fruit and flowers from the same tree the last of September, 1863. Again I feel myself called upon to address my countrymen - not for the benefit of political parties, but for the best good of thirty millions of people, who inhabit one of the richest and most fruitful portions of the civilized world, and who, with the favor of God and the blessings of peace and union, may yet be a great and prosperous nation. Acknowledging my responsi bility, I feel deeply conscious of a sacred right to address this nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.