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Confidential - (Copy)

The President will find enclosed
two papers that are now exciting
attention and will yet attract
still more consideration from the
public.  Their authorship is, for
the present, a [Secesh?], but in respect to
yourself, I [deal?] [frankly?].
It is time the truth was told that
the Country may be saved.  The
Startling facts contained in the
National Intelligencer of this morning,
with regard to the condition of Suffering
of the millions of People in the South,
to say nothing of the [advancing?]
[disbelief?] among other millions of
the North, While nothing effective is being
done to relieve the situation on either
hand.  Will soon demand a much

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[fuller?] [expense?] & it will be made.
A [general?] condition of anarchy
threatens to Convulse the Nation
at no very distant day.  It is a
happy moment, nevertheless, for
the Chief Magistrate as the
[Wishes?] of the People, to [?]
in behalf of the people.

I remain [?] [?]
With very great [?],
John Tyler, Jr.

His Excellency
Andrew Johnson
The President

Washington City
Dec - 27 - 1867