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My friends remonstrated; but I was so convinced of the man’s innocence that I determined to go on.
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Upon arriving at the White House, the emissary was greeted by Mary Lincoln with an exclamation: “I am so glad you have come, I am just as mad as I can be. Mrs. Crittenden has just been here to remonstrate with me for wearing my lilac suit to Colonel Baker’s funeral. I wonder if the women of Washington expect me to muffle myself up in mourning for every soldier killed in this great war?”
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Lydia Maria Child thought “it is some thing to get slavery abolished in ten miles square, after thirty years of arguing, remonstrating, and petitioning,” although the amount of territory liberated was “not much.” She predicted that the “effect it will produce is of more importance than the act itself.”
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