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of lightning shaking each other at all hours of the day, England 

 and America cannot choose but be friends ! 



Ladies, I know that you are for it. Gentlemen, you I know 

 will do as the ladies do. They are the very fountains of civiliza- 

 tion, and long may the empire endure of such men and such 

 women as now make up in English speech nearly sixty millions 

 of individuals. 



We now say God bless you, and leave you to look at the plen- 

 tiful feast of reason outspread before you, in the Crystal Palace 

 of the city of JVcw- York I 



