The struggle has been, of course, contemplated by foreign nations with reference less to its own merits than to its supposed and often exaggerated effects and consequences resulting to those nations themselves.
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Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.
Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending call of troops to fill up the armies
The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of the Union.
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically unjust, and also in bad faith of the Government's promise to fairly allow credits for men previously furnished.
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