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January 19, 1849

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Friday, January 19, 1849.
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Lincoln votes against reconsideration of bill granting compensation for slave sent west with Indians. He votes against passage, but it passes 101-95. Globe.

To J. B. Herrick, who has recommended William M. Black for register of Land Office at Vandalia, Lincoln writes: "I shall, when the time comes, try to do right, in view of all the lights then before me." Abraham Lincoln to Josiah B. Herrick, 19 January 1849, CW, 2:23-24. 

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Lincoln votes against reconsideration of bill granting compensation 
for slave sent west with Indians. He votes against passage, but it 
passes 101-95.
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To J. B. Herrick, who has recommended William M. Black for register 
of Land Office at Vandalia, Lincoln writes: "I shall, when the time 
comes, try to do right, in view of all the lights then before me."
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