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America Acts Nobly

The people of the United States abolished slavery at a stupendous cost in money, property and lives; bestowed upon the freed men the privileges of citizenship; undertook the great task of their education; freed Cuba from the rule of Spain; fed starving Belgium during the World War; asked not a dollar as a reward for decisive action in that, greatest of all human struggles, and tried nobly to drive alcohol from the borders of the nation.