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Letter to William H. Herndon

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Apr 11, 1865

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

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Mar 4, 1865

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

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