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“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.”
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- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c67047314f0ad5dc272f569f7eb31068c81f75e6dcc788ad88ea3e36f7f1a0a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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