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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...rk, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has been published in the news- papers of that State. It has not been announced or ... ...RLES P. KIRKLAND, ESQ., New Y ork: I have just received and have read your published letter to the HON. Benjamin R. Curtis. Under the circumstances I... ...ongstreet and yourself about the amnesty proclamation, which is now in the newspapers, genuine? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO E. STANLEY. EXECUTIVE MANSION,... ...ssing to love liberty. Hence we behold the process by which thousands are daily passing from under the yoke of bond- age hailed by some as the advanc... ...hed this morning in the New Y ork World and New Y ork Journal of Commerce, newspapers printed and published in the city of New Y ork, a false and spur... ...on with the question of continuing or modifying the rights of transit from Canada through the United States, as well as the regulation of imposts, whi... ... understood while making this state- ment that the colonial authorities of Canada are not deemed to 230 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven b...

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