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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
There is no peace;" as long as selfishness, error and passion exist, so long will the profession of arms be required. Gallant men, when we reflect upon the number of survivors whom time, disease and shot have spared, upon the immeasurable wealth you have added to the country; those western . acquisitions, the potential forces of which were given to cement our Union, whose weight was thrown into the scale when weight was needed —to be told that some of those who aided in these resources, who gave blood, and toil, and home for the common good—have so foully erred that there is no pardon for them, and they and you alike are to be denied a small measure of the gratitude of a nation, thus aggrandized by your united efforts; that, although by solemn enactment the ban has been removed, and they have been restored to common and equal rights with you; the sting remains, the release was only for the ear, not to the hope; "We, the immaculate, are better than thou! Depart!" Our answer is; " Under which king, Bezonian? "
Mexican War
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