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I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

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Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

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Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how ca…

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A land without memories is a people without liberty.

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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the So…

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I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything…

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The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which …

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