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Could you see them approach their dust with such language on their tongues, you would see them retreat with horrible confusion from these relicks of departed worth.
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Daggett imagines the shame that would overcome those who dishonor the memory of respected leaders, emphasizing the weight of their actions.
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One part of this cost will be an increase of the violence of parties.
Such meanness, such baseness, such hypocrisy in office seekers, exhibit in strong colors the depravity of human nature and teach us what dependence may justly be placed on pretensions and professions.
To that suffering nation turn your eyes and reflect that the mighty mass of woe under which they have groaned, was produced by an ambition, fierce, cruel and destructive as hell, and that an ambition alike terrible reigns every where.
Never till this year have we heard, or even suspected that our state was governed by lawless mobs.
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