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Indeed, we are verging so fast to destruction that I am feeling that sense to which I have been a stranger until within these three months.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Beck conveys Washington's growing concern about the nation's trajectory towards destruction.

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