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My dear Sir: Yours about motion to quash an indictment, was received yesterday. I think I had no authority but the Statute when I wrote the Indictment. In fact, I remember but little about it. I think yet there is no necessity for setting out the letter in
haec verba. Our Statute, as I think, relaxes the high degree of technical certainty formerly required.
I am so busy with our case on trial here,2Open page that I can not examine authorities near as fully as you can there.
If, after all, the indictment shall be quashed, it will only prove that my forte is as a Statesman, rather than as a Prossecutor.
Yours as ever A. LINCOLN.