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According to folklore, the Flying Head drove the original native inhabitants who lived in the area of the state of New York near the source of the Hudson River away from their hunting grounds before the Europeans came. The name of the previous inhabitants has been lost to history, and the legend of the Flying Head ensured that every neighboring tribe steered clear for many years. The Flying Head legend survives, but the name of the tribe who invented it is gone.
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“When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”
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