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Dear Lady,

I love Wilde. Since I have been on this board though and have been accused of not using reference and wandering from the subject of the Civil War, I fear to speak much on Mr. Wilde as I may be reprimanded by your fellow Dixieites. Let me bring it on subject in this fashion...William Henry Seward had a humor much like Wilde's. After the Hampton Roads meeting he sent champagne to the Confederate envoys. The emissaries spotted Seward with a boatswain's trumpet calling out "Keep the champagne but return the Negro."

OH my. Let me reference that for my critics.

Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, vol. 4, 46

Adieu, Dear Lady

Chase.

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