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that this action might find its worthy place in history – It marks a firmness of stepping forth toward a future unknown & inevitable, where in the Indian must be merged in the American that [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]]predicates a people of more than ordinary gifts of character.

To us these relics are strange & some of them seemingly forbidding. But, they are no more so, then any relics which speak of warlike valor, they show another aspect of war – than these trophies

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predicates