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The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete

Volume 7 — IDENTIFIED THE COLORED MAN.

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Many applications reached Lincoln as he passed to and from the White House and the War Department. One day as he crossed the park he was stopped by a negro, who told him a pitiful story. The President wrote him out a check, which read. “Pay to colored man with one leg five dollars.”

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