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Excerpt from A Sermon: In Reference to the Catastrophe Which Occurred on Board the United States' Ship Princeton, on February 28, 1844, Viewed as a National Calamity, Delivered on Sunday, 10th Day of March
And know their rights, and knowing dare maintain l'hese constitute a state.
Yes, it is moral elevation that makes a nation truly great and happy. Material prosperity, wealth, commerce, manufactures, in increasing population, a fertile and well-cultivated territory, these may he short-lived and deceptive evidences of a people's Welfare. The conqueror may come in and spoil these, the ?ue tuatimis of trade, the accidents of the seasons, may waste them. Hen a nation has nothing else to rely on, however outwardly it is in reality wretched and helpless, and totters to its tall. Lint a nation that has even lost these, il'ithave retained faith Ill (ind, purity of morals, and a deep sense of dllly> 500.
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