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the most redoubtable enemy we had ever to 

 contend against of men who have added to 

 that glory and those interests in the cabinet, 

 in the senate, and in the pulpit who have 

 adorned them by their literary productions 

 by men, who, in their private capacity of 

 English gentlemen, in all their social duties 

 and relations, give proofs that they would 

 sanction no pursuit, the exercise of which 

 would tend in the remotest degree to sully 

 that triple emblem of our nationality and union 

 which bears enwreathed on it the rose, the 

 thistle, and the shamrock and which has 

 braved, and which shall still brave for thou- 

 sands of years the " battle and the breeze !" 



