Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 77
r of earth to barter life and the soulitself. Is it not clear that no dominion of the State —not even the State itself — is worth preserving at thecost of the lives and happiness of the people ? It is not that I love country less, but humanity more,that now, on this national anniversary, I plead… … Fields Drenched in Fraternal Gore. Recognizing God as a common father, the seemingdiversities of nations — separated only by the accidentof mountains, rivers, and seas, into those distinctions around which cluster the as-sociations of country — alldisappear, and thevarious people ofthe globestand…
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