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649. BADGES, Utilizing.—

Let them [Cincinnati society] melt up their eagles and
add the mass to the distributable fund, that


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their descendants may have no temptation
to hang them in their button holes.—
To M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 271. Ford ed., iv., 176.
(P. 1786)

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