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Excerpt from An Address to Federal Clergymen, on the Subject of the War Proclaimed by the Congress of the United States, June 18, 1812, Against the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland
Them are we more interested than in the separation of the United States from all political connexion with Great Britain. This was an event which excited the attention of an admiring world. The circumstances under which it took place, were such as directed the astonished eye to the hand of him, who is the great Arbiter of the nations of the earth, for its accomplishment. The commence ment of our revolutionary war found the patriots of this country without military discipline, without arms, without ammunition. They being stimulated with a love and sense of liberty, made their appeal to the supreme Ruler of the universe, for the rectitude of their cause; and contended with England at a time when the powers of Europe trembled at her frowns. The event was glorious it terminated in our freedom, sovereignty and independence. Those same revolution ary patriots, who achieved our freedom, lived to form and put into Operation constitutions of government, as free perhaps as the present state of man will admit - repub lican forms of government, rendering the administrators thereof, at short periods, dependent on the people for the tenure Of their offices; by which we have a government of laws and not of men. This is the definition of a republic, which the late President Adams gave to his friend, the Hon. George Wythe of Virginia, in a letter addressed to him in 177 6. Speaking of Britain he oh .
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