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14 On re-entering the United States, and reaching a place of 

 safety, discharge any of your attendants who may desire and de- 

 serve it, procuring for them immediate payment of all arrears of 

 pay and clothing which may have incurred since their departure, 

 and assure them that they shall be recommended to the liberality 

 of the legislature for the grant of a soldier's portion of land each, 

 as proposed in my message to congress, arid repair yourself, with 

 your papers, to the seat of government. 



" To provide, on the accident of your death, against anarchy, 

 dispersion, and the consequent danger to your party, and total 

 failure of the enterprise, you are hereby authorized, by any instru- 

 ment, signed and written in your own hand, to name the person 

 among them who shall succeed to the command on your decease ; 

 and by like instruments, to change the nomination, from time to 

 time, as further experience of the characters accompanying you 

 shall point out superior fitness ; and all the powers and authorities 

 given to yourself, are, in the event of your death, transferred to, 

 and vested in the successor so named, with further power to him 

 and his successors, in like manner, to name each his successor, 

 who, on the death of his predecessor, shall be invested with all the 

 powers and authorities given to yourself. Given under my hand, 

 at the city of Washington, this twentieth day of June, 1803. 



(Signed) "THOMAS JEFFERSON, 



" President of the United States of America." 



Commerce, science, patriotism, are not alone interested in such 

 discoveries ; the moralist, the philanthropist, and the theologian 

 draw instruction from them, and are willing to confess the obliga- 

 tion. The Reverend Professor Dick, D. D., on whose brow hang 

 the wreaths that literature, philosophy, and religion wove in con- 

 cert, has borne honourable testimony to this, as follows : 



" With that branch of knowledge to which I have now adverted, 

 (geography,) every individual of the human race ought to be in 



