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The National Anti-Slavery Standard agreed that the message was “very obscurely written.” Less unfavorable was Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, which deemed it “sturdy, clumsy, inelegant and characteristic, having none of the sophomoric touches of Mr. Seward” and lacking “the lowest level of platitude by Edward Bates.”
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