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torical controversies I allege, as a further proof, the testimony of a Salm-Salm; repeat what was said by O'Donnell in his speech, and what was affirmed by Forey in his proclamation; torture the genuine meanning of words, converting into crimes even the colonization contracts . . . . and you will neverbe able, in your impotent passion, to darken, even for one moment, the imperishable glory of Juarez, nor diminish in the very least the prestige he had, which his name maintains at present, and which he forever will have, whatever may be the noisy declamations of those who, in their humble condition of the conquered, sought in calumny a consolation for their defeat.
