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all fully employed to the extent of their capacity. Where 

 the individual talent of a community is thus fully and univer- 

 sally developed, there must be freedom. 



There always will be individuals pre-eminently gifted, but 

 where talent abounds, there is less danger from the inherent 

 selfishness of those thus liberally endowed by Nature. Let 

 knowledge be diffused on the most enlarged and liberal scale, 

 and the sceptre of tyrants is broken, the throne of delusion 

 crumbles, and individual freedom is fully ensured. It is im- 

 possible for a people, thoroughly enlightened, ever to be en- 

 slaved ? Tyranny can never flourish on the soil of this country. 



In nothing is the supremacy of America so apparent, as in 

 the fact that when men of talent, accustomed to sway the mind 

 of the ignorant masses in Europe, are exiled to these shores, 

 they have to settle down here after awhile as ordinary men. 

 America extends to them a hospitable welcome, but because 

 they have come to a " free country," they cannot monopolize, 

 for any length of time, any exorbitant share of popular attention 

 and favor. They may be eloquent orators and journalists, but 

 that is nothing in a country where such gifts are abundantly 

 developed. It is true they may contrive to create a local distur- 

 bance for awhile, but then it is soon over, their names are for- 

 gotten, never mentioned, and they take their rank as ordinary 

 mortals. 



The truth is, that society in America resembles a wide-spread 

 and well-developed tree, where a great many branches make 

 an equally powerful growth on all sides, so that it is not easy 

 to distinguish amongst them any particular branch which takes 

 the lead. It is not an easy thing for any man to render himself 

 conspicuous by his abilities in a country where there is so much 

 individual talent called forth by education. Now this is all 

 right. It is good policy founded on Nature. 



Continue to educate thy children, Columbia ! Inspire them 

 with an inextinguishable love of truth and freedom, and thy place 

 shall be foremost among the nations in wealth, in science, and in 

 empire ! Oh I tyranny, leave these shores forever ! There is no 

 chance for thee here ! Away with thy dungeons and thy chains ! 

 It is not in America that enfranchised humanity can ever be 

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