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a man. It has done all this by your good will and good sense, and 

 it will labor as it has done, to repay by solid benefits all that has 

 been given to it. 



There will always be found American citizens of patriotic and in- 

 telligent souls, to sustain and increase its power to do good. 



It is no place for idle and ignorant men to be in. It is a hive ad- 

 mitting no drones. It realizes, in a pleasant sense, the old Roman 

 sayings, " Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes." " Sic vos non vobis 

 vellera fertis oves." Like the bees, it makes honey not for itself. 

 Like the flock of sheep, it bears fleeces not for its own use.. 



What man blessed by the Almighty with his full equal share in 

 the Independence declared in '76 — in the management of a mighty 

 power of more than twenty millions of the most energetic race ever 

 living on the globe, having one foot on the Atlantic and the other on 

 the Pacific ocean, with the Orangeries on the South and the frozen 

 lands on the North — what member of such a state as this, but feels 

 just pride in his position 1 



We may truly begin to enumerate the steps which have led us to 

 this point of our national progress. 



The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth rock, without the slightest stain 

 of wrong intent — with no longing for wealth — with prayer and with 

 pure love for liberty and equal rights. The gallant Smith went to 

 Virginia with no expectation of finding mines of gold. He and his 

 descendants were always for liberty and pure morals. Disease, fierce 

 savages, and often neglect at home did not stop the growth of that 

 section. Smith was a hero in battle, but that was the least of his 

 claims to fame. This country has been founded by men who placed 

 none but the rational value upon riches. What has followed in the 

 order of time. A W^asbington who, in ancient Rome would long 

 since have been called by the Senate, Divus, a God! A Ben Frank- 

 lin, a mechanic, a printer ; the first man of our race (which had seen 

 the lightning flash for almost 6000 years,) who proved that it was 

 identical with the petty sparks from a cat's back or a silk stocking, 



