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in. Whither it is tending peems plain. If you now will, this
removal of a great wrong, anor wills alio that we of the lates
as well on your of the South, shall pay faish for our compact
in that wrong, impartial history will finor there in the canso
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FACSIMILE OF CLOSING PARAGRAPH FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF LINCOLN'S LETTER TO A. G. HODGES, OF APRIL 4, 1864. SEE PAGES 508-9.