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hopes for tlie regeneration of the soil of the Commonwealth, and 

 for the proper elevation and true dignity of her sons. 



" And permit me, finally, to add, that it lies with yourselves, 

 under a gracious Providence, to say when this golden age shall 

 be ushered in. For though you cannot build this great temple 

 with your own hands, yet you may give tone to the policy of 

 our common government, which can lay its foundations deep as 

 perpetuity, and spread its ample arches broad as the land. You 

 are, in the multitude as well as in the individual, the architects 

 of your own fortune. 



" You may, by indifference, suffer the half-finished walls of 

 this temple to tumble down in neglect, or rise, if at all, dispro- 

 portioncd and incongruous, repulsive to the votaries at its shrine, 

 inefficient in its influence and abortive in its mission — or you 

 can, if you will, adorn and beautify its rising columns, crowd its 

 broad and lofty portals with devotees bringing their sheaves 

 with them and fixing their trophies in its very dome, till it shall 

 become the just pride, and, under God, the ultimate preserver, 

 of the Commonwealth. Build ye for yourselves and for 

 posterity." 



