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I know I have given you, ladies and gentlemen, a glowing account 

 of the resources of the South, but I have said nothing which time and 

 investigation will not corroborate. What I have said, however, has 

 been spoken in no spirit of unkindness to their great sisters of the 

 North and West. Far be it from me to alienate them. I know no 

 North, no South, no East, no West. The great Washington proclaimed 

 to the ears of our ancestors — ^" united we stand, divided we fall." It is 

 still true. We are freedom's great hope and the world's deliverance. 



Now when the night and the tempest have closed around Europe, 

 and the 'brave have sunk down with their country's liberties, let us 

 look up to our Union, and the Great Charter which creates it as the 

 bulwark of our strength and independence. Let us nourish our coun- 

 try — develope her strength — enrich and beautify her borders. Let 

 us pull together. Let the young men remember what their fathers 

 have secured, through perils by day and perils by night, to transmit 

 to them as the best legacy they could confer, as the surest pledge of 

 their affection, that they might transmit it unimpaired to their succes- 

 sors. So feeling — so acting, we shall be ready to exclaim with tte 

 dybg Adams — " independence now and independence forever." 



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