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it was given them to see the right, wore the gray. 

 And none pay that tribute of regard so frankly as 

 those who themselves wore the blue in battle. 



And having said that, I am sure that none of my 

 friends who fought in the Confederate service will 

 misunderstand me or will grudge what I am about 

 to say when I say that the greatest debt owed by 

 this country to any set of men is owed by it to those 

 men of the so-called border States the men who in 

 statesmanship followed Clay and the Crittendens 

 and the Blairs; the men who as soldiers fought on 

 the same side with Thomas and Farragut, the men 

 who were for the Union, without regard to whether 

 their immediate associates were for it or not. In 

 'New York, in Massachusetts, in Illinois, in Iowa, 

 the men who stood for the Union went with the 

 stream. In parts of Kentucky, of Virginia, of Mis 

 souri, they stemmed the torrent. And, gentlemen, 

 I am half a Southerner myself. Two of my uncles 

 fought in the Confederate Navy. One of them 

 served under the father-in-law of Vice-Governor 

 Luke Wright, of the Philippine Islands. And so I 

 think I have the right to say that, knowing the 

 Southern people as I do, I would heartily advocate 

 fighting twice as hard as you fought from 1861 to 



1865 for the privilege of staying in the same Union 

 with them. 



The man to be a great statesman on the bench 

 of the Supreme Court must have many qualities, 

 and fortunate are we that this evening we can point 

 to Justice Harlan as embodying them. A good citi- 



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