Southern Pacific Locomotives

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    “... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold that he is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...”
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    “The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
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    “The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
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    And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
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