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Show We Pass This to the Able Tribune Editor The spirit of the immortal Thomas Paine, it is said, has been abroad in Washington, D. C, and from the dome of the Capitol he read .to his countrymen these noble words from his book, The Crisis: ' It is the object of war only that makes it honorable. And if there ever was a just war since the world began, it is this in which. America is now engaged We. fight not to enslave but to set free, and to make room upon tns earth for honest men to live in." .... m |