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"The Mission of the War" was a speech written by Frederick Douglass in order to raise morale on black rights. Douglass first said this speech in Philadelphia on December 4, 1863, during the final year and a half of The American Civil War. This speech fought for black male suffrage and became widely popular among African-Americans. Abolitionists that heard his speech cheered for "Abolition War" and " Abolition Peace." His speech took Douglass on a speaking tour, similar to other tours he did as an abolitionist. His second location was in Washington D.C where he said "The Mission of the War" twice on consecutive nights, December 7th and 8th. There were reports of thousands of African-Americans filling the streets and sitting on the floor just to listen to Douglass. During his stay in Washington, Douglass wrote letters to his British friends that expressed Douglass's emotions on how his speech has been handled. "How I should liked to have been an eyewitness of your visiting those dear... little Children! & to have heard the singing!" Douglass's next spot was to a large audience at the Cooper Institute in New York on January 13 1864. To Douglass as shown in his speech, the was was "like a terrible, necessary gift from history and from Providence. What Douglass meant by the phrase "Abolition War" was a military conquest of the South and a complete enlistment of black soldiers without discrimination and legal guarantees of black freedom and equal rights.Douglass's true meaning behind the phrase "Abolition Peace" was a reconstruction of the Southern society with full black citizenship and enfranchisement.Douglass believed that this "Abolition War" would have brought a better end to the Civil War because he believed that if an emancipation was accomplished, it would happen in great violence and its aftermath might prompt even greater backlashes of violence. Douglass fought for an "Abolition War, however governments disagreed with Douglass's plan and the idea of the "Abolition War happening became doubted as the war could still be lost and the "Abolition War" was very risky. However, Douglass's speech gained so much popularity that Abraham Lincoln invited Douglass for a meeting in the White House in the view of the black leader would change almost everything once again. Lincoln heard about Douglass's speech through meetings with a devoted abolitionist John Eaton Jr., who had heard Douglass's speech and talked about it with Lincoln. On August 19, Douglass arrived at the White House for his meeting with Lincoln. Lincoln and Douglass, during the meeting, had an open exchange. Lincoln accused Doiglass's speech of "heartless sentiments" and an absence of all moral feeling. Douglass stuck back at Lincoln saying that Lincoln robbed their statesmanship of all soul-moving utterances. Lincoln then assessed the situation and realized that Douglass was a fierce, but helpful critic. Lincoln was very invested in what Douglass had to say that he delayed his meeting with the Governor of Connecticut twice, which Douglass was very proud of. Lincoln and Douglass reached a point where Lincoln was worried that he would not be reelected and that the war could collapse and emancipation would be put stopped for a while. Lincoln was also worried about the threats he was getting from republicans. Douglass left and decided to put down his idea of an "Abolition War" for a while as even he was not sure how he would even infiltrate the South. "The Mission of the War" stood as Douglass's abolitionist Gettysburg Address, and was a vision of a new founding of an American republic.