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this present hour, agonizes by the shores of the Pacific. 

 The disaster of San Francisco has awakened a feeling 

 of deepest grief in every French heart, and a feeling of 

 admiration, too, for the manliness displayed by the pop- 

 ulation during this awful trial. So that what will be 

 commemorated will not be only the American nation's 

 sorrow, but her unfailing heroism and energy. 



Now your magnificent gift will be added to the col- 

 lection in Paris; it will be there in its proper place. 

 The thousands who visit that Museum will be reminded 

 by it that the ties happily formed long ago are neither 

 broken nor distended, and they will contemplate with a 

 veneration equal to that of their ancestors the features 

 of one whom Mirabeau justly called one of the heroes 

 of mankind. 



