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Annapolis <date when='1862-05-20'>May 20<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>th</hi></hi> 1862</date><lb/>
His Excellency<lb/>
The Governor of Kentucky<lb/>
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<p corresp='TTP35093250P3' xml:id='OTP35093250P3'>I have the honor of herewith enclosing a copy of certain Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Maryland at its recent session deprecating the continued agitation of the Slavery question, and appealing to our bretheren in the several loyal States of the Union to forbear from the discussion of a theme already so fruitful of evil --
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