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France bleeding in every pore has played football. With royalty and pretention as no other nation in Europe has. Her mobs excesses and bloody revolutions are but the healthy exaction of a proud nation against oppression. To a people who despise every symbol of aristocracy what are palace gardens, statuary, decorations,  cloth of gold, veiled pictures of departed royalty! - naught but hideous ghosts of a hated past that have lived and fattened on a nation's blood. France is nearer republican freedom today, with a foreign foe in her soil, than with the usurper   on her throne. For Louis Napoleon his family, pretentions, have all been swept away by the high tide of war

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
		New York Feb 18th 1871
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France bleeding in every pore has played football. With royalty and pretention as no other nation in Europe has. Her mobs excesses and bloody revolutions are but the healthy exaction of a proud nation against oppression. To a people who despise every symbol of aristocracy what are palace gardens, statuary, decorations,  cloth of gold, veiled pictures of departed royalty! - naught but hideous ghosts of a hated past that have lived and fattened on a nation's blood. France is nearer republican freedom today, with a foreign foe in her soil, than with the usurper   on her throne. For Louis Napoleon his family, pretentions, have all been swept away by the high tide of war.

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
		New York Feb. 18th, 1871
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Autograph Notes, 1874-02-13