Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mrs. Horace Mann, 1864, April 5.

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Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mrs. Horace Mann, 1864, April 5.

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Letter regarding the petition of the children of the United States to free all slave children which was delivered to Lincoln by Senator Sumner. Lincoln writes "I have not the power to grant all they ask ... God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it."

1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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