Happy new year anons

>'In spite of the nameless dread that rested upon so many… and chilled the very blood of the country's industries, the new year… came hopefully, serenely, almost defiantly in. There was an indescribable something in the air… a feeling that the old order had passed away and that the republic had entered into the womb of time and been born again.'

The Last President, by Ingersoll Lockwood

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