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I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but ...
I write it in order , if possible , to get you to face the truth , which truth is , you are destitute have idled away all your time . Your thousand pretenses for not getting along better are all nonsense ; they deceive nobody but ...
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I do not believe any compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union is now possible . All I learn leads to a directly opposite belief . The strength of the rebellion is its military , its army .
I do not believe any compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union is now possible . All I learn leads to a directly opposite belief . The strength of the rebellion is its military , its army .
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Hold on with a bulldog grip , and chew and choke as much as possible . A. LINCOLN wwwwwwwww wwwmmm wwwmmmm wwwwwwwwww Secret Pledge AFTER his reëlection Lincoln ( 234 ) Telegram to Ulysses S Grant.
Hold on with a bulldog grip , and chew and choke as much as possible . A. LINCOLN wwwwwwwww wwwmmm wwwmmmm wwwwwwwwww Secret Pledge AFTER his reëlection Lincoln ( 234 ) Telegram to Ulysses S Grant.
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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 |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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