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fame. May their memories be ever blessed for their fortitude, 

 and the wise resolve to bear it unstained to a land of spiritual 

 freedom ; and may no blight arise in future to retard our on- 

 ward progress, or to damp the moral energies of our people ; 

 may generations yet unborn, in dwelling upon the virtues of 

 those who have gone before them, find something to respect 

 and admire in the recollection of- our times and our names. 

 May we succeed in acquiring for ourselves a character distin- 

 guished for moral and mental beauty, so that in ages to come, 

 when collected multitudes shall be gathered together under 

 these shades to commemorate the virtues of our fathers, there 

 shall be no dark shade in the fair face of our being, to break 

 the bright moral view of the past." 



I throw myself on the indulgence of Mr. M. C. Maragne, 

 from whose address, delivered in Abbeville last year, I have 

 selected the foregoing extract. 



