12/05/1864
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"I will now close by proposing three cheers for Gen. Sherman and the army."
"We have talked of elections until there is nothing more to say about them."
"I solicit your authority to furnish to the Republic a gunboat at moderate cost, to be reimbursed to the United States by installments."
"For myself, I have no doubt of the power and duty of the Executive, under the law of nations, to exclude enemies of the human race from an asylum in the United States."