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ment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted 

 shall be forever prohibited. When the war closed it was settled 

 that the government of the United States of America was not a 

 mere confederacy but "an indestructible union of indestructible 

 states." 



In view of these universally recognized and conceded results, 

 the heroic dead, whose patriotic sacrifice we this day commemo- 

 rate, did not die in vain, and the living, maimed and broken in 

 health, who still abide among us, have not suffered without 

 recompense. Every sincere lover of his country can but rejoice 

 in the fact that the feelings of sectional hate, engendered by 

 many years of embittered controversy culminating in the fierce 

 strife of civil war, have passed from the hearts and no longer 

 find expression upon the lips of men, and that where war and 

 malice once held sway peace and good-will are enthroned. 



