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Lincoln and Scott discuss handling Missouri

Lincoln and Scott discuss handling Missouri

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WASHINGTON, DC. President Lincoln and Gen. Winfield Scott discuss ways to defuse Missouri citizens’ anger with General Frémont’s militant abolitionist policies.

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