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In times like this, I'm best alone.
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"Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, City Point.
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I have read your words with interest."
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"I ask that, regardless of any action I take
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in the matter of the visit of the Richmond commissioners,
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you maintain among your troops military preparedness for battle,
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as you have done until now."
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"Have Captain Saunders convey the commissioners to me here in Washington."
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- "A. Lincoln" and the date. - Yes sir.
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Shall I transmit, sir?
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You think we choose to be born?
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I don't suppose so.