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of the State, would disparage a union at the present time, 
simply because they could not themselves claim compensation. | 
Thus there will probably always be, until annexation becomes | 
an established fact, a strong party opposed to it from selfish | 
motives alone, and that party will always consist of the future | 
those opposed to him, although believing in the ultimate fate 
aspirants to office. National unity has already been destroyed, 
and the few patriots whom I have met are only too anxious to , 
swear allegiance to a real republic, instead of a sham, and to | 
renounce for ever that system of despotism and tyranny, that ¢ 
degradation of the many for the aggrandisement of the few, | 
that corruption in office and disregard to law, which now | 
disgrace one of the finest regions on the globe. 
