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consider it but a mote offering on the altar of our country.
By the light of the blazing ruin of what had once been a proud palace, Napoleon read this inscription, which Rostopchin had affixed to his gate:
"Frenchmen!
I have spent eight years in embellishing this residence.
Here I have lived happily in the bosom of my family.
The inhabitants of this estate, numbering seventeen hundred and twenty persons, have quitted it at your approach, and I have, with my own hands, fired my beloved home to prevent its pollution by your presence!"
Shall our patriotism be colder and more calculating than that of the subjects of a despotic ruler?
Have we less reason to resist — less reason to detest — the invading armies of the North than the Russians had to oppose and hate the French?
Our enemies, with a boastful insolence unparalleled in the history of modern civilized warfare, have threatened not only our subjugation, but some of them have announced their determination, if suc