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He rode among the troops inspiring, calming, strengthening, steadying.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “He rode among the troops inspiring, calming, strengthening, steadying.”
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This quote illustrates Washington's role in motivating and supporting his troops during a critical moment in battle.
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The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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