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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. – Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1865 Malice means "a bad feeling. " Based on this passage, how did Abraham Lincoln propose that the victorious North should treat the defeated South? Harshly and with bitterness With help and kindness As the party responsible for the war and its aftermath.