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Excerpt from The Monument of Patriotism, Being a Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Some of Those Men Who Signed the Independence of America: And Brief Sketches of Many Other Eminent Statesmen; Also, Generals and Heroes Who Fought and Bled in the Revolutionary War; And Also, the Most Prominent Characters of the Late War With Great Britain
The ingratitude of Republics to their distinguished benefactors and heroes, has long been proverbial. But this opin~ ion, like many others with relation to Re publican governments, had its origin in the examples of Greece and Rome, and so far as imparts that ingratitude to those who render important services to their country, is peculiar to, or in any way a consequence of Republican institutions, is.
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