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Excerpt from Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen, Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana That for which man offers up his blood or his property must be more valuable than they. In short, only for the nobility within us, only for virtue, will man Open his veins, and offer up his spirit. But this nobility, this virtue, presents different phases: with the Christian martyr it is faith; with the savage it is honor with the republican it is liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
List for March 7, 1844, is the list for September 10, 1842, amended in manuscript.
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