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Show John Brlcht on Peace. John nrlght's sublime flguro of tho Angel of Death has passed into a commonplace of Journalism, nnd the splendid passago of hid other spoech ngnliiBt tho Crimean war Is almost oqunlly well known from tho" opening words: "I am not, hor did' I ever pretend to bo, n statesman," to tho peroration: "And, even if I wero alone, if my voico wero tho solitary one raised amid tho din of. arms nnd the clamors of a venal, press, I should havo tho consolation I havo tonight nnd which I trust' will bo mine to tho last moment of, my existence tho priceless consola-' ticti that I havo never uttered ono wo'rd that could promoto tho squan-, derlng of my country's treasure or! the spilling of ono slnglo drop of my-country's my-country's blood." |