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documents, which presented themselves in 

 the defence itself, the public will decide 

 if the author merits the shameful para- 

 graphs by which some of the public papers 

 have sought to wound him, during the last 

 year and a half. But that which is most ex- 

 traordinary of all is, the contrast of the two 

 accusations on the same subject of defence. 

 Who would have thought in the year 1795, 

 that America would emancipate herself in my 

 lifetime ? that she would put in practice the 

 principles that I published in defence of the 

 rights of man? and that this same publica- 

 tion should serve as a document to vindicate 

 me in an entirely contrary cause ? But the 

 country, this country, to which I have conse- 

 crated all the pains of my life, will at least 

 do justice to my memory when I no longer 

 exist. 



" May she then, in the midst of liberty and 

 opulence, receive the vows which I at this 



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