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present, so that he might follow rather than precede him. ["No, no."] In the darkest days of the country they were hoping and would hope for better times; they would, as he believed, soon redeem the country from the arbitrary rule that now oppresses everything in it. He had always honored his flag; but he would be excused for saying that it was to him no longer the same flag until it shall become the symbol of peace to all who bear the American name. [Applause.] He called attention to the first month of the present Administration, when men first began to talk of war. They then opposed the idea of going to war with those whose blood ran in our own veins.--The fathers of the Constitution established the fact that the rights of States can never be put down by armed force. Until the present desolating war be stopped, he said, there can be nothing like constitutional freedom. In the face of such important circumstances, it was proper that the memory of Thomas Jefferson should be rememb