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Let us pause, sir, before we give an answer to this question. The fate
of us, the fate of millions now alive, the fate of millions yet unborn,
depend upon the answer. Let it be the result of calmness and
intrepidity; let it be dictated by the principles of loyalty and the
principles of liberty. Let it be such as never, in the worst events, to
give us reason to reproach ourselves, or others reason to reproach us,
for having done too much or too little. JAMES WILSON.