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... nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide . I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country ...
... nation of freemen we must live through all time , or die by suicide . I hope I am over wary ; but if I am not , there is even now something of ill omen amongst us . I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country ...
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... nation ; and let the old and the young , the rich and the poor , the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and condi- tions , sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars . While ever a state of feeling such as this shall ...
... nation ; and let the old and the young , the rich and the poor , the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and condi- tions , sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars . While ever a state of feeling such as this shall ...
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... nation . And thus , from the force of cir- cumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes - that of establishing and ...
... nation . And thus , from the force of cir- cumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes - that of establishing and ...
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... nation of the earth . In it the world has found a solution of the long - mooted problem as to the capa- bility of man to govern himself . In it was the germ which has vegetated , and still is to grow and expand into the uni- versal ...
... nation of the earth . In it the world has found a solution of the long - mooted problem as to the capa- bility of man to govern himself . In it was the germ which has vegetated , and still is to grow and expand into the uni- versal ...
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... nation should not , and the Almighty will not , be evaded , so let him attempt no evasion -- no equivocation . And if , so answering , he can show that the soil was ours where the first blood of the war was shed , —that it was not ...
... nation should not , and the Almighty will not , be evaded , so let him attempt no evasion -- no equivocation . And if , so answering , he can show that the soil was ours where the first blood of the war was shed , —that it was not ...
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