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Abraham Lincoln: “That amendment is of so much importance that the adoption or rejection of it by the Government of Nicaragua should not…”

On the recordApril 14, 1862
That amendment is of so much importance that the adoption or rejection of it by the Government of Nicaragua should not be left to construction or inference.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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