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I thought that whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers , leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do in saving the Union . Does it appear otherwise to you ? But negroes , like other people , act upon motives .
I thought that whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers , leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do in saving the Union . Does it appear otherwise to you ? But negroes , like other people , act upon motives .
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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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Looking upon these many people assembled here to serve , as they best may , the soldiers of the Union , it occurs at once that three years ago the same soldiers could not so much as pass through Baltimore . The change from then till now ...
Looking upon these many people assembled here to serve , as they best may , the soldiers of the Union , it occurs at once that three years ago the same soldiers could not so much as pass through Baltimore . The change from then till now ...
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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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