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With physical boundaries embracing a realm of majestic propor- 

 tions ; peopled by a race of Saxon origin, unquestionable in its 

 valor, unexampled in its powers of endurance, following every art 

 and grasping every science by that inductive genius which charac- 

 terizes the mother from whose loins we sprang ; with a govern- 

 ment founded on the ideas of social equality, personal freedom, 

 and absolute independence ; with ample pi-osperity at home, and 

 commanding respect abroad — the United States of America, com- 

 prehending 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 the Protestant Reformation 

 pointing its spires to the skies ; with peaceful, happy homes scat- 

 tered over the land, with their untold millions of the children of 

 labor ; with no divided banner of Nationality over us, — w'e 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." 



