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In what other time, to what other ruler have questions of such importance been presented, and under circumstances so difficult?
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “In what other time, to what other ruler have questions of such importance been presented, and under circumstances so…”
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Boutwell poses a rhetorical question about the unprecedented challenges faced by leaders during critical times.
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They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
Of all the eminent men that you have sent forth into the service of the State and the country, he must be accounted the chief, when we consider the value of his contribution, historically, and on the side of freedom and civilization.
Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
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