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every other pursuit of gain or pleasure, is merged in the nobler 

 and more enduring dignity of the manhood that is the birth- 

 right of the soul. Such, and so far above the platform of our* 

 daily struggles, is the great battle-ground of Freedom and 

 Truth on which our country is now contending. For the Inde- 

 pendence earned by our fathers' hardships ; for the Constitu- 

 tion they bequeathed us, hallowed by the blood it cost, glorious 

 in tlie light of the triumphs it has won ; for territory inviolate, 

 for sovereignty unimpaired, for Union inseparable, — for these, 

 and nothing else and nothing less, — let the country strive as 

 one man, with all the strength and faith and stubbornness that 

 arise from consciousness of duty and Divine approval, — and no 

 corruption of cities, no miserable clangor f^ party discord, no 

 vile hopes of profit or promotion in the disgrace of tiiat grand 

 old Flag, shall avail to drag its stars and stripes in the dust, or 

 blot out the ensign of the Republic from the heraldry of 

 Nations ! 



