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 is therefore finished; but one reflection presents itself too forcibly to be suppressed.

"To such a people as Armata victory ought to be no triumph but in its consequences. — She ought to consult the happiness of the nation that has been subdued, as faithfully as her own — she should hail the dawn of a representative government, the only antidote to despotism or revolution, and now that the evils of war have been terminated by her warlike exertions, her friendly influence should succeed them for the preservation of peace; but lest the fortunate close of this bloody æra should be confounded in future times with its unhappy commencement, she ought to blazon upon her national banners the auspicious principles of her own revolution — the guarantee to every people of the government of their own choice, whilst the independence of other nations shall be reciprocally respected.

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