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Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.
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Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.