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2i6 CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS

Together with not a few other of the admirable quali- ties of Milton's Satan, he had in a high degree the one quality which we respect most in that heroic, if some- what unregenerate, type of Promethean rebellion, —

" The courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome."

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