But you say you are conserv... by George Haven Putnam, an American Soldier

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“But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

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George Haven Putnam

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Name: George Haven Putnam

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 2, 1844

Date of Death: Feb 27, 1930

Profession: Soldier

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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

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