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PARENTS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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ness which comes only from being sufficient to your own needs.
That the two people who endured its hardships and made in spite of them a home where a boy could conceive and nourish such ideals and enthusiasms as inspired Abraham Lincoln from his early years should have their names darkened by unfounded suspicions is a cruel injustice against which every honest and patriotic American ought to set his face.
