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You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.

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  2. All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States the…
  3. I am the last President of the United States!
  4. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous …
  5. It is said that serious apprehensions are to some extent entertained (in which I do not share) that the peace of this District may be distu…
  6. Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
  7. Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
  8. What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

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