On the record
Let us have it decided whether the Declaration of Independence in this blessed year of 1858 shall be thus amended.
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He calls for a decision on whether the Declaration of Independence should be amended to exclude certain groups.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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