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WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION.

To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The          States, Resist much, obey little;

Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth,          ever afterward resumes its liberty.

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