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Yet in the early youth of our national life we are already exhausted by premature excesses.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “Yet in the early youth of our national life we are already exhausted by premature excesses.”
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Boutwell warns against the dangers of excess in the early years of American governance.
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Is a vote for President McKinley and his policy in the Philippine Islands a vote in harmony with the teachings and examples of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln?
By the Ordinance of 1787, freedom and full right to self-government were made secure to the coming millions who were to occupy the States northwest of the River Ohio.
Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?
They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
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