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of passed through a variety without stain and without reproach. ft bas been reserved for him to run the race of glory without experiencto the ing the smallest interruptionbreath of brilliancy of his career. The impeach censure has not dared to nor the the purity of his conduct. eye of envy to raise its malignant glance to the elevation of kis virtues. Such has been the transcendent merit and the unparalleled fate of this il-! lustrious man! Happy Americans While the whirlwind flies over one quarter of the globe, and spreads remain everywhere desolation, youeffects by protected from the baneful of your own virtue and the wisdomfrom Separated your government. Europe by an immense ocean you feel not the effects of those prejudices boasand passions which convert the scenes ted seats of civilisation into of horror and bloodshed. You profit of the conby the folly and madness tending nations and afford in your to more congenial clime an asylum those blessings and virtues which wickedly they wantonly contemn or Cultivatexclude from their bosom! influunder the ing the arts of peace advance by raence of freedom, you pid strides to opulence and distinction. If by any accident you should an unbe compelled to tal=e part in find it should happy contest, if youinsult or repel necessary to avenge to injury, the world will bear witness the the equity of your sentiments and success moderation of your views. The of your arms will no doubt be proportioned to the justice of your cause." and the -Fox's eulogy on Washington Americans, delivered in the British
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otwithstanding his extraordinary has talents and exalted integrity, 1_,!scenes
ing honour less from the splendour of his situation than from the digwhom all nity of his mind before honoured greatness sinks intoandinsigponificance and all the princes tentates of Europe become little and contemptible. The people over whom he presided be knew to be acquainted with their rights and their lilacs.
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If "You cannot conquer America. an EngI were an American as I am down my lay lishman, I would never arms."-Lord Chathe in on the American War of Independence.
George Washington
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