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[sheeringenuity]

When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read: "All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.- Abraham Lincoln

to "augment" (as Condy would so densely put it) my theme for the day of human ingenuity...Bush could take a page out of this brilliant man's letter