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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

AND THE

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN

THE UNITED STATES

BY

CHARLES GODFREY LELAND
AUTHOR OF "HANS BREITMANN'S BALLADS, " "THE EGYPTIAN SKETCH BOOK,"

ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET

1881

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

N issuing this second edition of Mr. Leland's

I

biography, the publishers have taken occasion

to correct a few errors in dates and proper names, and in citations from documents, that had crept into the first edition.

The book was prepared during the author's residence abroad, where he did not have at hand for reference all the authorities needed, and as it was stereotyped in London the above oversigì.. were not at once detected.

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