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They utter the best thought which their countrymen in their time are able to reach.
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Hoar asserts that influential individuals articulate the best thoughts of their contemporaries.
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And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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