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If I decide this case in favor of my own government, I must disavow its most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The country caunot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles, and adhere to that policy,...

Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive ... - Page 14
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1862
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National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 706 pages

...most cherished principles, and reverse and forever abandon its essential policy. The county cannot afford the sacrifice. If I maintain those principles...this Government could not deny the justice of the claims presented to us in this respect upon its merits. We are asked to do to the British nation just...

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