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De Alexander: “If the country lives, as I trust it will, let me be remembered among those who laboured to save it.”

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If the country lives, as I trust it will, let me be remembered among those who laboured to save it.
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De Alexander
Republican · New York

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Alexander wishes to be remembered as someone who contributed to the preservation of the country.

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