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{  freed, the Union saved, and the "American people stood so near the f
  thin veil that separates mortals from immortals, time from eternity, i
  and men from their God," they could almost see through its parting  
  i folds, the republic’s half million heroes, walking in the elysian fields `
  of the just. Again the angel of peace spread her wings upon a
 `· reunited countr , which was mr ed and urified in the fier furnace
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 ,; of civil strife. To—day werecognize no sections, no geographical lines, 5 y
 . and a man’s patriotism is measured by his love for the entire Union. ·i
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  A Union comprising within its mighty sweep seventy millions of i
 J people, with no restraint, save the just laws that are the same to all. p A
  Believing an educated public opinion to be the fountain of law and Y
  . progress, and social growth, possible only through the survival of the
  socially fit, we have dotted our land with schools and churches, that
  train the mind and heart, and teach every man, however humble, the
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  importance of his own kingly character. Thus guaranteeing an in-
  telligent ballot, which is to-day the great bulwark of our national life. j
  Already pessimists believe we have reached a maximum develop- `
  ment and the downward journey has begun. Social alarmists hurl
  their accusations at our institutions, and predict from the arming of ·
  labor against capital the downfall of our government. But the care- .
  ful student of our condtion views the union of labor as the outgrowth A
fi? of intelli ence and believes that the co o aeration of these unions bids
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  fair for an ultimate solution of the gravest problem that has ever con-
  fronted our people. \Ve believe that ou1· republic grows better with ,
  each revolving year, and that all the great problems that are before l
i   us to—day will receive a just solution. Not by means of violence or E
  revolution, but through that higher and grander medium-—an organ- i
  ized intelligent ballot. 'We believe that future laws will be enacted
  that will take from the power-holdin g class, the exclusive privileges  
  they enjoy to-day, andthat every individual will have the same oppor- V
  tunity for the development of his own personality. l
  \Ve are far from believing that our republic——the highest realization
  of 1D2L11’S struggles for the rights of man-is destined to an early fall. l
  j On the contra1·y, we believe we are on the threshold of a wonderful i
  future. \Vhile standing upon the last decade ofthe grandest century l
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  "ever measured by the ihght of worlds."
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