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For myself, I believe that whatever estrangements may have existed in
the past, or may linger among us now, are born of ignorance and will be
dispelled by knowledge. I believe that of our forty-five States there
are no two who, if they could meet in the familiarity of the
intercourse, in the fulness of personal knowledge, would not only cease
to entertain any bitterness, or alienation, or distrust, but each would
utter to the other the words of the Jewish daughter, in that most
exquisite of idylls which has come down to us almost from the beginning
of time:
"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee;
for whither thou guest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will
lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
"Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do
so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee." GEORGE
FRISBIE HOAR.