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. It is a living register of deeds and men. From its accumulations of the records of the past—of the records of our common Country in general—we turn with more affectionate interest to those themes which are peculiarly local, to those acts which have added a lustre to this city, to those actors who lived, and breathed, and moved among us; who have formed a part of our crowded streets, and our busy thoroughfares.