Exercise 8 Mr. James experienced you should have inconsuever ford my tordiness; that it has been impossible & merke Is the recent stoguten & has poralyzed almost every deportment of business. Pode is however, plovoly improving mud a You #50.-, which ploce place to Transcribe, correcting mistakes and supplying a heading. Exercise 9 (without any general idea of independence as a possible The struggle against great britain was began by the American result. english speaking collonies any such intention however, very distasteful to the warmly favored in New england was not approved by other collonies and was formerly dissavowed by Cong on July 6, before the spring of 1776 1775. in Penna Md and New J. had enjoined upon thier dilalooking to Congress gates the rejuction of any proposition for a seperation and Λ so Ny was as much opposed to it that her dilegates took no part prominent feit in promoting it jeffersons object all along drawn up by him x was to impress upon the doc the consistant) character of a the declaration of independence renunsiation of the king adams supported the declaration with zeel and ability fighting fairlessly for every word of By a singler coincidents it. A The death of the two were allmost simultanious occur ing on the same day July 4 1862 the fiftieth aniversary of their joint success in producing the declaration of inde pendence. Del, and S. b. Make a copy, correcting all mistakes and punctuating properly. Do not change phraseology. Exercise 10 may although laws. be enacted to prevent in society Dinstinctions will always exist under everyy form of just Govt. that is just. Equality of talents of education or in govt, its evils exist) superior indu only in their abuses, I Make a copy, correcting all mistakes and punctuating properly. Do not change phraseology. NOTE. The above paragraph is taken from President Andrew Jackson's Veto Message of July 10, 1832. Exercise 11 In your hands my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war the government will not assail you unless you assai)-it-first you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while i shall have the most solemn one to "preserve protect and defend it". you can forbear the assault upon it i cannot shrink from the -defence of it with you and not with me is the solemn question am loth to "shall it be peace or a sword" 1,close we are noty we must not enemies but friends be aliens or enemies but fellow-countrymen and brethern it must not break may have though passion has strained our bonds of affection" ted hardly, they must not ́i am sure they will not be broken the mystic of memorys chords which proceeding from so many battlefield and so many stretch to every living all oner every patriot graves pass through 611 the hearts and all-hearths land swell the chorus of the union when this broad continent of ours will yet again harmonies in their Touched as surely. ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian_angels of the our They will be by the better Re-write, embodying corrections. NOTE. The above is the closing paragraph of President Lincoln's First Inaugural. As originally written by Lincoln it closed with the words, "Shall it be peace or a sword?" Secretary Seward submitted what follows which was adopted by Lincoln and transformed by the magic of his genius, as shown by the amendments. CORRESPONDENCE: HOW HANDLED Some explanation of how the correspondence of a business office is conducted should accompany instruction in letter writing, for one who has knowledge of |