 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 362 pages
...did not doubt that it contained your full case as you desired to present it. It contained figures for twelve districts, omitting the other nineteen, as...time employing infallible means to avoid any great wrongs. [Here follow statistics of the quotas of the various districts.] No part of my former letter... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...present it. It contained the figures for twelve districts, omitting the other nineteen, as I suppose, because you found nothing to complain of as to them....received to-day you send figures for twenty-eight districts, including the twelve sent before, and still omitting three, for which I suppose the enrolments... | |
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I supposed, because you found nothing to complain of as to them. I answered accordingly. In doing so I laid down the principle to which I purpose adhering, which is to proceed with the draft, at the same time employing infallible means to avoid any great... 
