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Let the Union flag be wrapped around me and a fold of it laid under my head." I feel proud that God gave me such a man to be my countryman and townsman.
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Hoar reflects on the pride he feels for a local soldier's sacrifice for his country, emphasizing patriotism.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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