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3107. FOURTH OF JULY, Despotism and.—

The flames kindled on the Fourth of


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July, 1776, have spread over too much of the
globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines
of despotism; on the contrary, they will
consume these engines and all who work
them.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 218.
(M. Sep. 1821)