indurate to make hard or callous.
Thurlow Weed (1797–1882) publisher of the Albany Journal; a leading anti-slavery editor.
abstruse hard to understand.
The Emancipation Proclamation Revealed by Lincoln to his Cabinet on September 22, 1862, and taking effect on January 1, 1863, it frees the slaves in all states and territories at war with the Union.
superfluous excessive, more than is needed.
turpitude depravity, baseness.
