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 men, it would be unjust not to believe that he was himself disinterested and independent.—His memory after death received this tribute from many illustrious persons who had differed from him in opinion, and it is not only held by his friends and adherents in affectionate remembrance, but in reverence as the saviour of his country.—Having from a sense of justice recorded this last testimony of an exalted reputation, I hold it to be a solemn duty to question and deny it, being convinced that if we revere, or even abide by the system which characterized his administration as having formerly saved his country, we shall not save it.

"But to resume my history.—The circumstances which attended this ill-fated period are not yet summed up.—When the war with Hesperia was approaching, a warning voice, as it were out of Heaven itself, from its wisdom and eloquence, though drowned by the clamours of ignorance and folly in the outset, yet in the