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Bunker Hill (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
and all— with great pleasure and great instruction. You have amassed a heap of valuable and often recondite illustrations in support of a noble cause. And who can refuse sympathy with the spirit of philanthropy which has given rise to such a charming ideal?—but a little too unqualified. There can be no war that is not dishonorable. I can't go along with this. No! by all those who fell at Marathon; by those who fought at Morgarten and Bannockburn; by those who fought and bled at Bunker's Hill; in the war of the Low Countries against Philip the Second,—in all those wars which have had, which are yet to have, freedom for their object,—I can't acquiesce in your sweeping denunciation, my good friend. I admire your moral courage in delivering your sentiments so plainly in the face of that thick array of well-padded and well-buttoned coats of blue, besmeared with gold, which must have surrounded the rostrum of the orator on this day. I may one day see you on a crusade to pers
Bedford, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 33
ate to celestial hopes the day—the great day — which Americans have at best heretofore held sacred only to memory. To no one did the oration give greater satisfaction than to William Jay, who was the ablest advocate the cause of Peace ever had in this country, and from whose writings Sumner had largely drawn his material. Judge Jay read the oration with its notes the same evening he received it, reading all at one sitting. Thanking Sumner for its reference to himself, he wrote from Bedford, N. Y., Aug. 22:— But far other than personal considerations lead me to rejoice in this address. The high moral courage you have exhibited, the elevated principles you have advanced, the important facts you have spread before the community, your powerful arguments expressed in strong and beautiful language, together with the wide and salutary influence your effort will exert,—all combine to swell the debt of gratitude which you have earned from your fellow-citizens. That debt, I well k
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