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... purpose of making the matter as plain as possible , I now say that you can now drop the subject , dismiss your thoughts ( if you ever had any ) from me forever , and leave this letter unanswered , without calling forth one accusing ...
... purpose of making the matter as plain as possible , I now say that you can now drop the subject , dismiss your thoughts ( if you ever had any ) from me forever , and leave this letter unanswered , without calling forth one accusing ...
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... purpose , it is intended that you shall read this just at such a time . Why I say it is reasonable that you will feel very badly yet , is because of three special causes added to the general one which I shall mention . The general cause ...
... purpose , it is intended that you shall read this just at such a time . Why I say it is reasonable that you will feel very badly yet , is because of three special causes added to the general one which I shall mention . The general cause ...
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... purpose of obtaining the very best evidence as to whether Texas had actually carried her revolution to the place where the hostili- ties of the present war commenced , let the President answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before ...
... purpose of obtaining the very best evidence as to whether Texas had actually carried her revolution to the place where the hostili- ties of the present war commenced , let the President answer the interrogatories I proposed , as before ...
Page 53
... " to reject indemnity , by refus- ing to accept a cession of territory , would be to abandon all our just demands , and to wage the war bearing all its ex- penses , without a purpose or definite object . " 53 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... " to reject indemnity , by refus- ing to accept a cession of territory , would be to abandon all our just demands , and to wage the war bearing all its ex- penses , without a purpose or definite object . " 53 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. penses , without a purpose or definite object . " So then this national honor , security of the future , and everything but territorial indemnity may be considered the no - purposes and indefinite objects of ...
Abraham Lincoln Mary Maclean. penses , without a purpose or definite object . " So then this national honor , security of the future , and everything but territorial indemnity may be considered the no - purposes and indefinite objects of ...
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