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CONTEMPORARY COPY OF A FAMOUS LINCOLN LETTER (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. "Copy Executive Mansion, Washington--March 20, 1865" of a letter to Amanda H. Hall. 4to, written on laid paper in iron gall ink which has turned to brown; creases where folded, some wear and loss of paper at the bottom edge. Washington (?), circa 1865-1875
Lincoln, replying to a letter sent by a woman to her brother, a member of the House of Representatives quotes from his own second inaugural address: "Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsman''s two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another from drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ''The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.''" A noted wartime letter which, like several others, was copied numerous times. The present copy is definitely a nineteenth century version.
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