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fully endorsed the plan as the only [underlined] hope of the final [underlined] salvation of our Country -- and altho' neither he, nor I, nor you perhaps, ever dreamed that it would ever [word crossed out] come to this -- that if their policy, should not rule the country, they would do their best to ruin it, he [insert] Mr. H. has pursued the line of policy marked out by you & your colleagues with a steady zeal from that day to this -- and now that the great victory at the polls is won, he is anxious as the most earnest of us that this victory of peace shall be gloriously & triumphantly sustained [underlined] if it must be so, on the battlefield --

Our brave democratic [underlined] brothers of the North have sprung to arms at the cry of danger to the Union and are ready to do battle for the Union pure and simple --but to the