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Allow me to thank you for your polite call, as Charge d'Affaires of Mexico. While, as yet I can do no official act on behalf of the United States, as one of it's citizens, I tender the expression of my
sincere wishes for the happiness, prosperity, and liberty of yourself, your government, and its people. Your Obt. Servt
A. LINCOLN