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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
Not voider the ensign of Washington, that flower of manhood and Christian chivalry; not under the flag of Lincoln, the magnanimous, clasping the banner of the nineteenth century with the sunlight of its amenities illuminating its great folds, exhibiting in characters of living light its motto, " Charity to all, malice toward none." I will not believe that justice, before it is too late, will be denied. I will still have trust that the persistent efforts of honorable | delegates, supported as they will be by the honest impulses of the American heart, already instructed by many resolutions of state legislatures, 1 will be potent to effect the ends of a thorough equity.
Fellow veterans: Those who fell by disease or battle are not for- | gotten. Though no annual procession of tribute-bearing pilgrims may decorate their sod with offerings of affection, to-day we strew the immortelles of memory over their graves. Though no sculptured stone may
record their virtues, an exalted patriotism, the crowning excellence, the civilized earth is their monument, the pedregal of Contreras, the garitas of San Antonio,
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