Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
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2. The UNION, it MUST and SHALL BE PRESERVED! 3. HUSH! _breathe it not aloud_, _The wild winds must not hear it! Yet, again_, _I tell thee_--WE ARE FREE! KNOWLES. 4. When my country shall take her place among the nations of the earth, THEN and not TILL then, let my epitaph be written. EMMETT. 5. If you are MEN, _follow_ ME! STRIKE DOWN _yon guard, and gain the mountain passes._ 6. OH! _shame on us_, countrymen, SHAME _on us_ ALL, If we CRINGE to so dastard a race. 7. This doctrine _never was received_; it NEVER CAN, _by any_ POSSIBILITY, BE RECEIVED; and, if admitted at ALL, it _must be by_ THE TOTAL SUBVERSION OF LIBERTY! 8. Are you _Christians_, and, by upholding duelists, will you _deluge the land with blood_, and _fill it with widows and orphans._ BEECHER. 9. LIBERTY _and_ UNION, NOW _and_ FOREVER, ONE _and_ INSEPARABLE. WEBSTER. 10. _Treason!_ cried the speaker; _treason_, TREASON, TREASON, |
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