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On the recordFebruary 7, 1865
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case requires from the two States, and it is just equal for Vermont to furnish one thousand more now than New Hampshire.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Message to Governor Smith of Vermont

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