>"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." -- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugral Address

At the time few were feeling charitable and even fewer were not feeling any malice. Lincoln was hoping for a speedy return of the Southern states into the union and most importantly, a peaceful one.