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6288. OPPRESSION, Nations and.—

It
is, indeed, an animating thought that, while
we are securing the rights of ourselves and
our posterity, we are pointing out the way
to struggling nations who wish, like us, to
emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven
help their struggles, and lead them, as it has
done us, triumphantly through them.—
Reply to Address. Washington ed. iii, 128. Ford ed., v, 147.
(1790)