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Excerpt from Reply of Messrs. Agenor De Gasparin, Edouard Laboulaye, Henri Martin, Augustin Cochin, to the Loyal National League of New York: Together With the Address of the League, Adopted at the Mass Inaugural Meeting, in Union Square, April 11, 1863
Gentlemen, - We would have thanked you much sooner but for the prolonged absence of one of our number. It would have been painful to us to have lost the collective character of this reply for the blending of our four names is a proof of that great unity of sentiment upon all that concerns the cause of justice which by God's favor manifests itself here below, in spite of political and religious differences.
Yet we are careful not to overrate our personal importance. The League does not address us as individuals; it speaks to France, who cherishes, as a national tradition, the friendship of the United States. It speaks to European opinion, which will rise up and declare itself more clearly as it recognizes that the struggle is between Slavery and Liberty.
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