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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
GURDON BILL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

THE REPUBLICAN PRESS:
SAMUEL BOWLES AND COMPANY,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

TO

ANDREW JOHNSON,

TO WHOM PROVIDENCE HAS ASSIGNED THE COMPLETION

OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LABORS,

I DEDICATE

THIS RECORD OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LIFE:

WITH THE PRAYER

THAT HISTORY, WHICH WILL ASSOCIATE THEIR NANES

FOREVER,

MAY BE ABLE TO FIND NO SEAM WHERE THEIR ADMINISTRATIONS

WERE JOINED,

AND

MARK NO CHANGE OF TEXTURE BY WHICH THEY MAY

BE CONTRASTED.

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