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But for the duty of this hour, consider if there is not a common meeting-ground and instant necessity for union in a rational effort to avert present perils.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid emphasizes the importance of unity in addressing urgent challenges.
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With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
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