Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].
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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848].
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1 [1824-Aug. 28, 1848]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024.
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[1] ALS-P, ISLA. Buckner S. Morris and John J. Brown, attorneys of Chicago.
[2] Apparently. this letter and the subsequent one dated October 21 are concerned with the extradition to New York of Joseph Thornton, Andrew Pringle, Samuel Stead, and John Davidson. Governor Augustus C. French of Illinois declined
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to award his warrant for the apprehension of the parties named, on the very ground suggested in Lincoln's letter---namely, the insufficiency of the affidavit upon which the purported fugitives from justice were demanded. See Governor's Letter-Books, 1840-1853, edited by Evarts B. Greene and Charles M. Thompson (1911), pp. 146-47.
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