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Any elevated government, in a case like this, where one of its citizens, in the performance of his duty, incurs such menaces and danger, assumes the responsibility; any elevated government says, "The act was mine, I am the man"; "Adsum qui feci, in me convertite ferrum."
But if we only did reverence England as once we reverenced her, this is what I would say: "Upon my country do not visit my sins. Upon my country's fame let me fasten no blot. Wherever I am wrong, inelegant, inaccurate, provincial, visit all your reprobation upon me, 'Me, me: adsum, qui feci; in me convertite ferrum, O Angli! mea fraus omnis, upon me as a writer, not upon me as an American.
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