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created — no trouble in persuading a fair share of the hoys and 

 girls to join hands and hearts in that noble calling which the 

 Almighty taught to Adam, and in the pursuit of which he has, 

 in every age, enabled Adam's successors to achieve no small 

 share of prosperity and usefulness. 



Then, as in Old Middlesex, in all N6w England and our 

 whole re-united country, the rural homes increase from year to 

 year, shall the graves of the fathers still be guarded, and the 

 virtues of the fathers be cherished; while, with prosperity, intel- 

 ligence and happiness throughout our borders, each generation, 

 to the end of time, shall exhibit to the world the spectacle of a 

 Christian republic, upheld by an undivided people and an 

 unconquerable race ! 



