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When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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It is an evil omen of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union.
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Such increase is destined to keep pace with the growth of our population, until, without a figure of speech, an army of officeholders may be spread over the land.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.
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Otherwise, free speech which is the strength of the Nation will be the cause of its destruction.