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Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress from the crumbling stone, but their fame remains; for with American liberty it rose, and with American liberty only can it perish.
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Seward argues that while physical monuments may decay, the fame of those who fought for liberty will endure as long as liberty itself exists.
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