I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live — an object of sacred interest — a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the President was pleased to hold me personally, but as an indication of his humane interest in the welfare of my whole race.
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Frederick Douglass in a letter to Mary Todd Lincoln (17 August 1865).Abraham Lincoln
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