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[1] Copy, DLC-RTL. Bates wrote on December 18 that upon returning to St. Louis from his conference with Lincoln he and judicious friends had concluded
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[1] Copy, DLC-RTL. Bates wrote on December 18 that upon returning to St. Louis from his conference with Lincoln he and judicious friends had concluded
that ``a good effect might be produced on the public mind---especially in the border Slave States---by letting the people know (substantially) the relations which now subsist between us. . . . '' (DLC-RTL).