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January 06, 1849

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Saturday, January 6, 1849.
 Washington, DC.

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After acrimonious sectional debate, House votes on committee report favoring bill granting $1,000 compensation to slaveowner whose slave, joining Florida Indians in 1835, was captured by U.S. troops and sent west. Vote is close, and speaker and clerk disagree on count. Lincoln votes nay and asks how his vote was recorded. Globe; Remarks in United States House of Representatives, 6 January 1849, CW, 2:19. 

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After acrimonious sectional debate, House votes on committee report 
favoring bill granting $1,000 compensation to slaveowner whose slave, 
joining Florida Indians in 1835, was captured by U.S. troops and sent 
west. Vote is close, and speaker and clerk disagree on count. Lincoln 
votes nay and asks how his vote was recorded.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A20' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in United States House of Representatives</xref>, 6 January 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:19.</bibl>
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