I

this

add a word which was not in the verbal convessa:
trow. In telling state I attempt no compliment to my own
sagacity.
I claim not to have controlled eventy, but confer
plaing that eventy have controlled sno. Now, at the ana
of three
years stringger the nation's constition is not what either
party, or any mow devised, or expected. God alone saw clams
it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If you now will, this
removal of a great wrong, snor will also that we of the Northe
as well as you of the Sorch, shall pay fairly for our complicity
in that wrong, impartial history will find therein as caned
goodmen of God.

rever

the jushaw

and

Yours ting ALincoln

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