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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.

Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial

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Rufus Choate
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Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855.

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