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God cannot pardon me if I have done wrong, yet I cannot see my wrong except in serving a degenerate people.
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Boutwell grapples with his conscience and the judgment of a society he feels is morally degraded.
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On no man in public life in this generation were there more frequent charges and insinuations of wrong-doing, and in this generation there has been no man in public life who was freer from all occasion for such insinuations and charges.
I believe now, as I did then, that it was for the best interests of this country, for the people of Santo Domingo, and all concerned, that the proposition should be received favorably.
My object was to make the loan more negotiable in Europe and thus to extend the demand, and consequently, to increase the value of our securities.
The reference of the question at issue to the tribunal at Geneva was a conspicuous instance of the adjustment of a grave international dispute by peaceful methods.
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