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Excerpt from An Oration: Delivered in Middlebury, at the Celebration of the Fourth of July, A D. 1809
ON the other, it was thought by some that the American States must look alone for danger to the inordinate lust of the whole to swallow up its parts; and by others, who had been more accustomed to trace the in?exible principles of mathe matical science, than to adopt those of common sense to the characters and circumstances of men and nations, from the met aphysical proposition they had formed, that the people can not be their own enemies. Believed that America with all the vigor of youth and splendor of innocence was gifted with im mortality.
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