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Are our offices so well filled, is the public service so completely performed, that we can afford to exclude talent and experience?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
He challenges the adequacy of current public service positions, advocating for the inclusion of talented individuals regardless of their military background.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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