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Then occurred a most admirable opportunity to test the strength of our government,--to learn and know whether the pillars of this Union are made of granite or of pipe-stems.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of testing the strength of the government during a crisis.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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