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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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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “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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