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On the recordApril 30, 1862
I deem it incompatible with the public interest, as also, perhaps, unjust to General Stone, to make a more particular statement of the evidence.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Message to the Senate on the Arrest and Imprisonment of Brigadier-General Stone

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