Trivia #8 Contemplation (11/13/2012)

[Trivia Master]

Tonight's Civil War Trivia Question Value: 10 points, 1 bonus point goes to the player with the first answer. This question will be open until Wednesday between 9 and 10pm EDT, when another question will be posted! As usual: Please do not post your answers anywhere but in this forum!
.​

Who wrote: "The change it contemplates would comes as gently as the dews of heaven, not rendering or wrecking anything."​

.
Post your answer below. Good Luck!​

 

[JRJ]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Keith Cochran]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[blwhite]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Bob Owen]

John Wilkes Booth

 

[Nathanb1]

Abraham Lincoln.

 

[reading48]

Abraham Lincoln ????

 

[jmb57]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[FourLeafClover]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[hoosier]

Jefferson Davis

 

[Red Harvest]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[rpkennedy]

Abraham Lincoln

R

 

[adisciu9]

Lincoln

 

[kbear]

A. Lincoln

 

[kholland]

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Erad]

Abraham Lincoln, rescinding an order given by General Hunter freeing slaves in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It was over gradual Emancipation, Lincoln.

Edit - Correct. Welcome to the trivia game, JPK Huson 1863.

Hoosier

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Lincoln, urging gradual and compensated emancipation.

 

[ExNavyPilot]

Abraham Lincoln, in his May 19, 1862 proclamation revoking Gen David Hunter's General Order No. 11 on military emancipation of slaves in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

 

[GELongstreet]

Lincoln