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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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