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Walt Whitman's Caution

Part of the cluster MESSENGER LEAVES.

Walt Whitman's Caution.

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of  
 The States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this  
 earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Part of the cluster MESSENGER LEAVES.

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