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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Request of a Committee of the Citizens of Washington: On the Occasion of Reading the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, 1821
From the earliest ages bf their recorded history, the inhabitants of the British Islands have been distinguished for their intelligence and their spirit. How much of these two qualities, the fountains of all amelioration in the condition of men, was sti¿ed by these two principles of subserviency to ecclesiastical usurpation, and of holding rights as the donation of kings, this is not: the occasion to inquire.
Of their tendency to palsy the vigor and enervate the faculties of man, all philosophical reasoning, and all ac tual experience, concur in testimony.
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