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When the Union needs my poor support, in peace or in war, I induge the hope that I shall not fail in the performance of any duty which may be required me. At any rate, I hope not to fall behind that class of men who are, on all occasions, blurting their devotion to the Union into the unwilling ears of the country.

— Henry Wilson Speech (1853)

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The idea which pervades our Constitution; that all men of every race are equal before the laws.

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