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Robert Hosea to Abraham Lincoln, February 7, 1861

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The tariff question will be sprung upon

us within a few weeks, and the battle

ground the north west. The conspirators

are trying to get the control of a hall

in this city to open the agitation, and

I learn have a daily paper enlisted

in their cause.

God grant they may not

succeed in their nefarious schemes,

and may He endow you with strength

of mind and wisdom to meet the coming

troubles which I fear are in store for you,

the people will sustain you, and God

grant you may come from the ordeal

with a reputation for wisdom and

patriotism second to none but that of

the Father of his Country.

Under God the only

hope is to divide the south, if only Virginia

Kentucky Tennesee and Louisiana can

be made to understand their safety and

prosperity are inseparable from the Union

we can save the structure yet.

Should my name be required, you can have

it, by expressing such a wish on your way from

Indianapolis to Cincinnati, on which trip I will be among

those to welcome you to this city. Respy yrs -- "Buckeye."

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