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New Reapers Will Arise

On this day when we, at least ostensibly, celebrate the birthday of George Washington, we bend an ear to the voice of Abraham Lincoln at the age of twenty eight, delivering an address at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois on January 27 1838.

A timely excerpt below, with emphasis added by DP. 

Let us take these words to heart, as “highly dangerous” individuals who believe themselves to be outside the law or even more arrogantly, ABOVE the law, run amok in the city named after George Washington. Now is the time to stand together, united with each other, and frustrate their designs. 

 

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