In that atmosphere. menaced as they were on the instant by lack of money. lack of credit. lack of harmony. and by every emergency that challenged a nation in the hour of its needed construction. do you suppose they spent the hours in figuring out the meaning of the word "person" that we have spent in discussing it here? At that time. Mr. President. the problem of immigration had not arisen. Websters Dictionary had not arrived. There were 3.200.000 free persons. 800.000 slaves. some witches. and some witch burners and sundry. and the problem was to create for these folk that which should becomeand has become. thank God !-the covenant of a great nation.
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