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You can survive the integrity of the nation; we in Maryland would live on the side of a gulf, perpetually tending to plunge into its depths.
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Creswell contrasts the survival of the nation with the dire consequences faced by Marylanders amid the war.
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They were on their knees praying for peace, ignorant that bloody war had already girded on his sword.
Combining within himself the better qualities of the soldier, sage, statesman, and patriot, alike brave, wise, discreet, and incorruptible, the common consent of mankind has awarded him the incomparable title of Father of his Country.
It is for us life and liberty; it is for you greatness, strength, and prosperity.
The appeal was spurned; and, in the face of its almost godlike gentleness, they who already gloried in their anticipated saturnalia of blood inhumanly and falsely stigmatized it as a declaration of war.
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