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earnest, eloquent, strictly logical, & most conclusive
letter of the Secretary of State, it is unnecessary
& would be obtrusive to do so. But I must be permitted to say that this suggestion
of a Treaty stipulation in defense of the outrage
-no defense at all so far as our Govt is concerned,[-]
is coincidentally an after-thought, it being apparent
to [...] the [...] of Austria; that
the aroused opinion of Xtendance would
require some decent effort at apology or
justification for an [...] flagrant & of such
universal application. In truth the defense
set up is supported [...] by fact in land
& only exaggerates the character of the offense &
[Bostral] abduction which pursuing his
lawful banish in the town of [Imyena]
on the Ottoman territory, is thus left to stand
almost without a parallel instance of
injustice [...] perpetuated on the old
robber-principle that "might makes right";
and best for the timely intervention of American
Authority would have appeared, hereafter,
no doubt, on that melancholy bit of
[ease] when Despotic Power in caregiving
not its illegal will, has trampled over
all Human Right & acted in contempt
of all moral restraints. I [...]
this is no time or place to discuss at any
length the grave [issues] that present
themselves in [...] with this matter.
But looking at the subject, indepen-
dently of the present social & political
condition of Europe, with which I have no [...], as a proposition to
be determined strictly on an abstract

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We have then a right to be [...] of the gallant
sailor who in a distance cover of the for Mediterranean
surrounded by numerous fan maintained so
humbly & [...] the [...] flag under which he
hangs his bone upon.We have a right to ufired
in the victory he a hired, as men, 
as between...

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