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Accordingly Abraham Lincoln designated April 30, 1863 as a day of "national humiliation, fasting and prayer." Citizens were to abstain from secular pursuits "and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord." Concluded the proclamation: "All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high...
Since the idealistic voters pledge themselves to abstain from an offensive war they must assume that such a phenomenon actually exists. This is their fundamental fallacy. Not since history began has any nation fought a war that was not considered a defense of its vital interests. In the latest great conflict, for example, the Central Powers were protecting their "besieged fortress" from the encircling policy of the Entente, while the latter group was engaged in crushing the great German military monsters. In the Spanish-American War the United States was protecting the abused Cubans, while Spain defended its right...
...bonds were then put up as surety that Mr. Gordon-Haddon "will abstain from claiming to be the son of the Duke of Clarence or causing or encouraging others so to affirm...
...advice, apparently, was to abstain from pressing President Grau too brusquely to resign. The pressure, according to Havana correspondents, was exerted by Senor Dorta Duque, "a close friend of Mr. Welles." When the Ambassador denied, just before he left Havana, that he had acted in any other role than that of "friendly observer," Uruguay's Dr. Fernandez said: "A rupture was produced by persons who represented themselves as connected with Mr. Welles...
...article Will France Go Fascist? by Huddleston. ¶"Do not make up the paper in such a way as to have all the reports of accidents and crimes follow one another, for it is not desirable to fill half-pages with catastrophic news. ¶"Warning is hereby given to abstain from using the words 'supreme hier archies,' as the party has only one: Il Duce. ¶"In announcing the celebration to be performed on the arrival of the Atlantic flyers in Rome the Carlino made use, in yesterday's number, of the word 'apotheosis.' This...