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Still , if put in two hundred and fifty dollars for me toward discharging the debt of the committee , I will allow it when you and I settle the private matter between us . This , with what I have already paid , and with an outstanding ...
Still , if put in two hundred and fifty dollars for me toward discharging the debt of the committee , I will allow it when you and I settle the private matter between us . This , with what I have already paid , and with an outstanding ...
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FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION JANUARY 1 , 1863 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : A PROCLAMATION WS THEREAS , on the twenty - second day of September , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty - two ...
FINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION JANUARY 1 , 1863 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : A PROCLAMATION WS THEREAS , on the twenty - second day of September , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty - two ...
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On the contrary it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers , seamen , and laborers . These are palpable facts , about which , as facts , there can be no caviling . We have the men , and we could not have had them ...
On the contrary it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers , seamen , and laborers . These are palpable facts , about which , as facts , there can be no caviling . We have the men , and we could not have had them ...
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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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