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people yet unborn. Oh, men of Delaware, would that I 

 were gifted with the eloquence of a Mirabeau or the 

 persuasive oratory of a Choate, that I might burn these 

 words into your very souls, and raise you willingly and 

 quickly to action. Oh, study this question well, I beg of 

 you who are to represent us in the coming legislature. 

 Be up and doing. Let the living echoes of modern 

 progress from far-off France be ever ringing in your ears. 

 Let the voice of the great Pasteur encourage you. Our 

 little State is small, in the past she has been conserva- 

 tive, we all know, perhaps, that was meet for her 

 modesty, and for her good ; but now, men of Delaware, 

 let us raise her from her dignified repose of centuries, 

 let us teach her that her past conservatism carried 

 beyond the just merits of her being, may be but the 

 fore-runner of future disintegration. No, the Diamond 

 State will take no step backward, she will advance in 

 the front line of modern progress, and modern ideas ; 

 and so let her carry her flag, and, overshadowed in body 

 though she be, by States of larger degree, let us strive 

 for her, let us encourage her, let us support her, and let 

 us so form her record in the future, as it has ever been 

 with her in the past ; that all may admiringly say, as 

 she passes in review among the galaxy of States, stand 

 up little Delaware, let us judge thee by thy soul. 



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