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and thus to promote the prosperity of the free national institutions of 

 •which you are so justly proud, and by which alone labor is honored. 

 And as time passes, the bountiful earth with her richest returns will 

 amply reward you, while around you wll spring up sons and daughters 

 to whom may be safely committed the sacred trust of perpetuating that 

 liberty and that equality of rights which forms a free State and makes 

 free citizens of us all. 



