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the office of the United States Marshal in Washington, Mr. Douglass said to his son, "My son, this is Mr. W., who was a friend to your father at a time when he greatly needed friends."
The entire book will be read with the deepest interest both on account of the personal clement and also on account of the relation of the author to great public questions and events.