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Now for a still greater absurdity. For it is provided in the compact
that it shall be the business of the delegates at the Congress and those
responsible for public safety to see that in the states that are parties to the
peace there shall be no executions and banishments contrary to the laws
established in those states, no confiscation of property, no partition of lands,
no cancelling of debts, and no emancipation of slaves for purposes of
revolution. But these speakers are so far from seeking to prevent any of these
evils, that they join in promoting them. And do they not then deserve
death—the men who promote in the various states those terrible
calamities which, because they are so serious, this important body has been
commissioned to prevent1
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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