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THat's what I thought. You posted a long list of stuff you can't understand, so now you get all petulant and try and hide you failings. Don't be so shy. We understand that it takes time to learn to think, and you won't ever get anywhere unless you at least start to try, no matter how you embarrass yourself in the effort.

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[Held_to_Ransom ns] THat's (sic) what I thought. You posted a long list of stuff you can't understand, so now you get all petulant and try and hide you (sic) failings. Don't be so shy. We understand that it takes time to learn to think, and you won't ever get anywhere unless you at least start to try, no matter how you embarrass yourself in the effort.

Lincoln the pimp was providing permits for other money-grubbing pimps to trade Yankee meat for Confederate cotton. Passes such as the following for a relative:

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7.

Endorsement Concerning William F. Shriver [1]

May 15. 1864

Indorsed

The writer of this is personally unknown to me, though married to a young relative of mine. I shall be obliged if he be allowed what he requests so far as the rules and exigencies of the public service will permit.

A. LINCOLN

The Confederate army was desperate for food. Using passes issued by Lincoln the pimp, money-grubbing pimps were provisioning the Confederate army. General Grant made explicitly clear what he thought about the United States Government provisioning the enemy army.

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O.R. Series I, vol 46, Part 2, Page 445

CITY POINT, VA., February 7, 1865-10 a.m.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

A. M. Laws is here with a steamer partially loaded with sugar and coffee, and a permit from the Treasury Department to go through into Virginia and North Carolina, and to bring out 10,000 bales of cotton. I have positively refused to adopt this mode of feeding the Southern army unless it is the direct order of the President. It is a humiliating fact that speculators have represented the location of cotton at different points in the South, and obtained permits to bring it out, covering more than the entire amount of the staple in all the cotton-growing States. I take this to be so from statements contained in a letter recently received from General Canby. It is for our interest now to stop all supplies going into the South between Charleston and the James River. Cotton only comes out on private accounts, except in payment for absolute necessities for the support of the war.

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

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