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Dear Friend Asher
I now seat myself to answer your best of letters which has just been read and reread by me with interest. Was sorry to learn you were suffering as you were; would I could share with you in your suffering I am sometimes led to say there is no such thing as justice or mercy; when I see the innocent suffer for the sins of others and then I think of the noble example of our Patriotic Fore Fathers who suffered to substantiate the principals of free government
There was one thing which