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Scope and Contents The note conveys a document entitled by "A noble character rewarded:" "When the Chicago Convention had announced to the world, the principles of their party and nominated Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for the presidency of these United States, you promptly placed at the head of your columns the names of those nominees as the men whom you designed to support this political campaign, not because they were the candidates of the Republican Party, but because they represented truly the...