Perhaps it was "angels" and Stanton was echoing Lincoln's First Inaugural Address where Lincoln called upon the "better angels":
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."Or perhaps it was the "ages" and Stanton was seeing the future when Lincoln would become of the American recognized the world over.
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