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country regarding the erection of a statue of Daniel Web 

 ster in front of the State House at Boston, and bitter op 

 position having been aroused by his seventh-of-March 

 speech, two groups of my student-disputants agreed to 

 take up this subject and model their speeches upon those 

 of Demosthenes and ^Eschines on the crown, which they 

 were then reading in the original. It was a happy thought, 

 and well carried out. 



