I told you that Abe was a powerful dude. ;’)
He was a very persuasive man. His second inaugural address called for an end to bitterness and disunion:
"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."
It is said that Jefferson Davis spent many of his final years studying the speeches and writings of Lincoln. And, it is clear that in the end Abe won him over. In 1887, Davis spoke the following words:
"The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes, and its aspirations. Before you lies the future, a future full of golden promise, a future of expanding national glory, before which all the world shall stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation to be wished—a reunited country."
It was as if Davis was channeling Lincoln. What a wonderful country we have - "one nation, under God, indivisible".