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More likely to abstain from stopping once they get at it, until they shall have voted several times each. A.L.
Oct. 16. 1864.
Annotation
[1] AES, NAuE. Lincoln's endorsement (misdated October 16, 1863, in Lapsley, VI, 450) appears on a letter to Seward dated at New York on October 15, 1864, and signed with the unidentified initials ``P.J.J.'': ``On the point of leaving I am told by a gentleman to whose statements I attach Credit, that the opposition Policy for the Presidential Campaign will be to `abstain from voting.' ''