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Mar 14, 1826

If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulated in favor of human nature, I can not…

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Mar 14, 1826

I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative.

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