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built in the hearts of his many friends may seem even now 

 to be crumbling to the dust; but things are not as they 

 seem; they will stand "while time and thought and being 

 last and immortality endures." He was an important fac- 

 tor at the beginning of a great work destined to be of in- 

 calculable importance to a great people; and when its his- 

 tory is written he will appear as a wise and courageous 

 pioneer and be assigned to his rightful place by an admiring 

 and grateful posterity. 



