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Excerpt from "Freedom Is Always Within the Union," Despotism Follows Its Downfall: Speech of Hon. H. L. Dickey, on the Duty of Ohio in the Present Crisis; The Question Being Upon the Adoption of Resolutions Asking Congress to Call a Convention of the States; Delivered in the Ohio House of Representatives March 20, 1861
Let those who have been deceived into the belief that there was no danger of dissolution, that free territory, free homes, and free farms should be theirs, without cost, when, in truth, under that delusion they have been led to occupy a position where their chances are to shoulder arms and bleach their bones upon the battle field in civil war, come together and strike hands with those of every other party and State in friendship and determined unity.
Will any man say the people favor disunion? Will any one say that the people will stop to weigh a mere party plat form against the value and blessings of the Union? Sir, the laboring man, the mechanic, the farmer, the merchant, all have a higher appreciation of the peace, the blessings and glory of the country than those in power, whose hearts have become callous by crimination and recrimination.
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