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On the recordDecember 10, 1862
This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Message to the Senate Responding to the Resolution Regarding Indian Barbarities in the State of Minnesota

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