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every art and grasping every science by that inductive genius 

 which characterizes the mother from wliose loins we sprang ; 

 with a government founded on the ideas of social equality, 

 personal freedom, and absolute independence ; with ample pros- 

 perity at home, and commanding respect abroad, — the United 

 States of America, comprehending any and all parallels of 

 latitude on this continent, compacted east and west by the great 

 oceans, with or without the islands thereof; with the religion of 

 tlie Protestant Reformation pointing its spires to the skies ; with 

 peaceful, happy homes scattered over the land, with their untold 

 millions of the children of labor ; with no divided banner of 

 nationality over us, — we shall become, in the history of the 

 world, the proudest illustration of that truth which we have 

 sought to maintain — " That National Industry is the true source 

 of National Greatness." 



