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.
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The gratitude of his countrymen rebuked all rivalries.
Let us imagine, or rather indulge the hope that then all the States of the south and the north, from the Arctic Seas to Patagonia, will be united in a national and international celebration in recognition of an event that has increased…
That is the lesson the war has burned in on the brain and conscience of the Nation.
He was so great that it was not a humiliation to acknowledge a change in opinion, or to admit an error in policy or purpose.
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