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I fear this subject will be an ignited spark, which, communicated to an immense mass of combustion, will produce an explosion that will shake this Union to its centre....
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Beveridge warns of the potential for civil unrest due to divisive issues in the Union.
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In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
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