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But there is a courage of Statesmen, besides; and nobly was it illustrated by the statesman whose national services we commemorate to-day.
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Creswell reflects on the courage of statesmen, highlighting the qualities of the individual being commemorated.
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But in the presence of the Omnipotent how insignificant is the proudest and the noblest of men!
You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it.
Thus has the country lost one of the most able, eloquent, and fearless of its defenders.
Before the expiration of three months events had demonstrated his wisdom and our folly, and other paragraphs from that same speech became the fighting creed of the Union men of Maryland.
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