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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1862, Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston
I am here for a far other purpose. I come to plead for the Constitution of our country. I am here to show you, from my own earnest convictions, how dan gerons it may be to forego all care for the connection between the political past and the political future. I am here to state to you, as I have read them on the page of history, the fundamental conditions on which alone, as I believe, the people of these States can be a nation, and preserve their liberties. I am here to endeavor to rescue the idea of union from heresies as destructive as the disorganizing and justly reprobated heresies of secession. I wish to do what I can to define to rational and intelligent minds the real na ture and limits of the national supremacy; and to vindicate it from the corroding influence of.doctrines which are leading us away from the political faith and precepts of'a free people.
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