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Dec. 1865
Hon: Gerrit Smith:
I hope you have succeeded in
teaching Chicago to keep a
Civil and truthful tongue.
I am obliged by your kind note.
Garnet has not yet replied.
He will not spare me—just as
I am again leaving home for the
East—the enclosed note for you
comes—from my Dear friend Julia,
I gladly forward it—
We must demand Suffrage—but rejoice if we can get the Slave Code
abolished—and future ones made impossible.
Your true and ever
Grateful friend
Fredk Douglass
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I added em dashes instead of hyphens between words. They are longer than hyphens and provide more space between words. The last sentence was transcribed as "and future ones are possible." I looked at this transcription and wasn't able to see the word "are" because there is a dot over the first letter so I assumed it to be the letter "i" If you look at the word "in" in the first line, and compare it to the word in the last line, you can see how similar they are, and because Douglass is saying that this is not something he wants to happen, I can read this "im" with a slight break "possible" > impossible.