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en given up in this contest, and our skirts are clear of the blood which has been shed. We entered it to maintain the rights of self-government.--a right which should have been as dear to our enemies as to us. It is a great American idea — the growth of American soil — and should, in their eyes, be as sacred as it is to us. For four long years we have been engaged in a war, the like of which has not been seen in modern times; the only approximations to which were the wars of Wallenstein and Attila and the Thirty Years War of Germany; and now, after these years of waste and destruction, we have been lately informed by the President of the United States that there can be no peace except upon the conditions of laying down our arms and absolute submission; to come in as rebels, and submit to laws confiscating our property, and awarding the death penalty to our citizens. Nor is this all. We are required to submit to an amendment, adopted to the United States Constitution, to turn loose th