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W. H. HENDERSON Y DEAR SIR : M ' The election is over , the session is ended and I am not Senator . I have to content myself with the honor of having been the first choice of a large majority of the fifty - one members who finally made ...
W. H. HENDERSON Y DEAR SIR : M ' The election is over , the session is ended and I am not Senator . I have to content myself with the honor of having been the first choice of a large majority of the fifty - one members who finally made ...
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Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President - elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward .
Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President - elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterward .
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But the election was a necessity . We cannot have free government without elections , and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election , it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us .
But the election was a necessity . We cannot have free government without elections , and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election , it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us .
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Contents
POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To John W Crisfield | 121 |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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